Cutting a Path: The Power of Purpose, Discipline, and Determination

Becoming a doctor is hard. Becoming a surgeon, even harder. Becoming a neurosurgeon as an Indian woman who wants to have a healthy work-home life balance and kids? Almost impossible.

But not for Dr. Sheri Dewan.

Always interested in science growing up, it wasn’t until neurosurgery saved her mother’s life from a ruptured brain aneurysm that Dr. Dewan started on the path toward becoming one of about two hundred female neurosurgeons in the United States. The trials, tribulations, and wrath of n...