Fellow Women Docs, Live for your Own Sake
It's OK to want a life you like just for your own sake. I'm a firm believer that when you have your life right, it improves the experience of those with whom you interact. Your patients will notice. Your partner will appreciate it. Your kids will feel it. However, you...
Women in White Coats Turns ONE YEARS OLD!
Today, the Women in White Coats Blog turns ONE YEARS OLD!!!When we launched our book "The Chronicles of Women in White Coats" back in May of 2018, we knew there were many more stories to be told and that Women...
Putting on My First White Coat
White Coat Ceremony. This ceremony is a time of celebration that symbolizes the beginning. Many doctorate programs have white coat ceremonies which include dental and medical school. Each of these fields designate the white coat ceremony...
Walking the Walk with My Patients
The idea behind not only talking the talk but walking the walk: Daily I have conversations with patients on how to improve their medical conditions by implementing dietary modifications and routine exercise. I try my best to give patients the tools to succeed,...
Physician Suicide Awareness Day
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide rates in the United States increased more than 30% from 1999 to 2017. More than half (54%) of people who died by suicide did not...
I Am the One Percent – When the Doctor Becomes the (Infertile) Patient
My fertility journey is not typical. I have not spent years “trying”. In fact, I have spent years trying NOT to get pregnant! My husband has two daughters – AND a vasectomy. So getting pregnant was a known challenge. Luckily, I like challenges. We went to an...
A Female Plastic Surgeon’s Perspective on Successful Marketing for Your Clinical Practice
I am on a mission to share lessons on online marketing with as many clinicians as I can. After leaving a successful academic group practice, I started a solo private practice in a town over 75 miles away. At that time, I had no clue where to start when it came to...
Young Doctors Need More Options! Direct Primary Care May Be the Solution.
In an age of physician burnout, greyed healthcare lines, and increasing rising costs of medical school debt, why would anyone choose to pursue medicine? The autonomy. The patient care. The satisfaction of knowing you’re an expert in your field. Unfortunately, we are...
How To Get Your Groove Back in Academic Medicine
For the past five years, there has been a blank space in my CV where papers and publications should live. These years were an academic desert in my career; in sharp contrast to the family that has lovingly and painstakingly grown from two to four. I have a research...
Doctoring In My Sleep
We are trained to do this in our sleep. More than ten years out from my residency graduation, I look back at my training and reflect on why exactly it was so grueling and arduous. I remember the innumerable ICU and Trauma rotations, overnight calls and night...
5 Simple Ways to Add Happiness To Your Day
My name is Claudine Courey and I wear my white coat everyday as an optometrist from Montreal, Canada! As with many of you, I wear many other “coats” in life as a mother, spouse, daughter, friend, business owner, all while trying to keep it together! What I have...
That’s Doctor Not Mrs.
I’m a physician married to a physician. Initially, I did not think I would face obstacles because of our dual career paths. I would soon learn, however, professional and personal life sacrifices would be necessary for us to achieve our goals. This is my story as a...
Identity Crisis: Physician or Family Member?
Am I a physician first or a sister first? Am I a physician first or a daughter first? The first thought continuously haunted me when my cousin (who was like my younger brother) was diagnosed with leukemia. Similarly, I struggled with the second thought. I struggled...
Physician Burnout and the Fashion Industry: Notes from a Former Fashion Designer
“Fashion Is Moving Too Fast, and It’s Killing Creativity," says Veronique Hyland, in an article from TheCut.com where she talks about burnout in the fashion industry. As a former fashion designer turn physician, my curiosity was piqued. If you substituted the word...
Gender Pay Disparity in Medicine is Real
September is Women in Medicine Month. This past week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) highlighted 2 papers which studied the #genderdisparities amongst pediatricians. These studies found important #genderdifferences regarding BOTH income and households....
