A female physician is murdered. A call to action to end intimate partner abuse.

This week, the community of women physicians was rocked by the death of one in our midst, an anesthesiologist, intensivist, medical school faculty member, and mother, in an apparent domestic violence homicide. Dr. Casey Drawert (yes, we will say her name) was a highly accomplished physician married to a “prominent businessman” adding to the media-stickiness of the story.  Her success clashes with our deeply entrenched biases about the demographics of domestic violence victims.

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