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Atlanta Woman Magazine
Articles by Mickey Goodman
Minimum Wage, Maximum Challenges
Thousands of working women in Atlanta are living in poverty.
by Mickey Goodman
Articulate , attractive, ambitious, Camille Johnson doesn't
bear an of the usual attributes of a homeless person,
but she's "been
there, done that" and may have to do it again. According to
the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, women like Johnson make
up nearly 70 percent of the requests for shelter in the metro Atlanta
area. Even more astonishing, "one third of the women in shelters
work full-time," says Stephanie Davis, executive director of
the Atlanta Women's Foundation, an organization dedicated to economic
and social justice for women.
Victor at Work, Victim at Home
How does a professional woman find herself trapped in the cycle
of domestic violence?
by Mickey Goodman
"My husband is a cardiologist. He knows how to break hearts." The
words emblazoned on a T-shirt sear the senses and scream silently
for passersby to take notice. Strung along a clothesline with a
dozen equally numbing revelations, it graphically depicts the anguish
of a physician’s wife caught in a web of domestic violence – a
woman very much like us.
The T-shirts are part of the Clothesline Project, a visual display
bearing witness to violence against women. Each represents the
personal experiences of a woman involved with Shalom Bayit (Peace
in the Family), a program of Jewish Family and Career Services.
Actual statistics are staggering. A 1999 Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health report estimates that one-third of all women worldwide
have been victims of intimate partner violence. The American Medical
Association concludes that 4 million women annually are battered.
It is the leading cause of injury to women ages 15 to 44 and according
to the U.S. Surgeon General’s office, more common than automobile
accidents, muggings and rapes combined. Defense Department figures
reveal that domestic violence results in the deaths of 2,000 women
a year. Experts like Nancy Grigsby, director of the Georgia Coalition
Against Domestic Violence, claim the actual number is much higher.
The Doctor is In
 More patients, men and women, are choosing female
doctors. Here’s why and what a woman goes through to be at
the top of her game.
by Mickey Goodman
Women searched far and wide to find a female
physician even 25 years ago – if they could find one at all, says Nina Montanero,
vice president of Public Affairs and Marketing at Piedmont Hospital.
They were such a rarity that gastroenterologist Cynthia Rudert,
M.D., president of Atlanta Women’s Medical Alliance, never
met a woman physician until she attended medical school at the
University of Louisville.
Today, one in five practicing physicians is a woman and by 2010,
the American Medical Association (AMA) predicts that the number
will expand to one-third. But not just the increase in numbers
that accounts for more men and women turning to female physicians.
When she is ill, Mimi Lash of Patillo Construction turn to Dr.
Martha H. Crenshaw at Stone Mountain Family Practice. One of the
main reasons is Dr. Crenshaw’s listening ability. "[She]
always has time to hear me, my concerns and my questions," says
Lash. "We interact as two equals. I never feel she is in a hurry
to move on to the next patient."
Three Wise Women
by Mickey Goodman
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