This paper aim to shed light on the social and political roles played by women doctors in Egypt, with a focus on women doctors who played prominent roles in countering hegemonic state and societal logics. By highlighting three experiences of women doctors, I hope to illustrate the ways in which medicine, gender, and politics have played out in different contexts. First, I focus on the late Nawal Sadawi’s experience as a doctor-turned-feminist intellectual. By centering Sadawi’s medical education and career, I aim to shed light on how medicine shaped a significant part of her intellectual contribution. I will investigate how Sadawi’s understanding of medicine and its social roles enabled her to rise as the feminist voice she was. Second, I center the experience of al-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence. Founded in 1993 by three women doctors, Magda Adly, Suzan Fayad and Aida Seif Eldawla, al-Nadeem initially aimed to provide medical and psychological care to individuals traumatized by various forms of violence, domestic or otherwise. Soon thereafter, it transformed into a human rights organization that, in addition to medical and psychological care, provided legal assistance to individuals who experienced violence and torture and engaged in various forms of advocacy to end torture in Egypt. Over the span of three decades, al-Nadeem has played a significant role in documenting cases of torture, political violence, and police brutality. Conversely to Sadawi’s case, I argue that al-Nadeem founders’ feminism enabled them to deploy a particular discourse of resistance through medicine. Finally, I focus on the figure of Mona Mina, a Coptic Cairene pediatrician who rose to prominence in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising through her work in the Tahrir field hospitals and later as the first woman elected as Secretary-General of Egypt’s Doctors’ Union after years of leading a movement that mobilized on behalf of doctors’ demands for better wages and working conditions. By centering Mina’s experience, I attempt to understand the ways in which the woman doctor’s body is read in a patriarchal order and how the privileges bestowed by medicine can enable a certain rearrangement of the patriarchal bargain.