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Kay White Drew (Katherine C. White, M.D.) is a retired neonatologist who spent her career caring for newborns in hospitals affiliated with Georgetown University Medical Center, Children’s National Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins Medical Center. A 1973 graduate of Wellesley College (Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude) and a 1977 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, she trained in pediatrics at the University of Maryland Hospital and completed her neonatology fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital.
Kay and her husband have lived in Rockville, Maryland, for more than four decades, where they raised three daughters. In retirement, she is active in the DMV writing community as a member of the Maryland Writers Association, the Eastern Shore Writers Association, and The Writer’s Center in Bethesda.
She welcomes connections through Facebook, Substack, and Bluesky, and can also be contacted at kaywhitedrew@gmail.com.
“…This book moved me to my core with its wisdom, compassion and grace for the people portrayed and the human flaws faced, which is to say it's a book for all of us.” -- Christine Koubek Flynn, essayist and fiction writer
“A touching and at times painful memoir of a young woman’s journey from a small town to a big city, from an all-women’s college to a medical school class with only a handful of women, and from an idealistic notion of medicine to the grim realities of hands-on care. A fascinating and heartfelt story.” -- Paul Offit, M.D., Chief of Infectious Disease and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
“Kay White Drew’s frank and honest memoir lays out the challenges she encountered in medical school in the 1970s—from facing her first cadaver, to the heartbreak of losing patients, to losing her mother to cancer—woven together with the joys of building meaningful relationships, solving complex problems, and saving lives.” – Ariele Sieling, prolific science fiction writer and consultant
“Stress Test is an excellent title for an excellent memoir. Kay Drew writes an incisive, unsparing account of her years training to become a doctor.” -- Celia Wexler, author of Catholic Women Confront Their Church and Out of the News
"Stress Test is as charming as it is vital in telling the story of a woman becoming a doctor during the national upheaval and civil unrest of the '60s and '70s.” -- Melissa Scholes Young, Professor of Literature, American University
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