85 to 90% of women physicians are eldest daughters. Pediatrician Jessie Mahoney explains why that is not a coincidence and how the pattern feeds physician burnout.

Eldest daughters are rewarded for hyper-responsibility before they can read. The career selects for the traits their families already trained. The burnout that follows reads as a personal failure when it is actually a thirty-year pipeline.

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