Female physicians discuss life in historically male-dominated profession

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 5:00 p.m. CDT; updated 1:44 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, July 28, 2010

COLUMBIA — A few years ago, Nicole Fearing was about to begin a colonoscopy on a patient at Truman Veterans Hospital in Columbia when the patient wondered aloud whether the hospital couldn't afford to hire a male physician.

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