“I could kick myself in the butt for waiting until I was 40 to have children,” said the surgeon, who said she was focused on her career and hadn’t realized her fertility rates would drop as she got older. She graduated from medical school without knowing that women's fertility rates drop as they get older?
I call BS. She's making up stories to suit her current agenda.
It's possible you're reading too much into that, Shrink. More likely, I think, is that she underestimated
how much her fertility would drop, and perhaps avoided thinking about it (much) until it got pretty late.
Observing my own acquaintances (and thinking of my own experience), it is not uncommon for educated and otherwise-aware women to procrastinate on procreation and then be hit by the sad reality of subfertility.