Ten Wellness and Fitness Favorites For Women Doctors
Happy New Year, to our fellow Women in White Coats! With the new year comes a chance for a fresh start and many of us set resolutions to make wellness, self-care and fitness a bigger priority in life. With that in mind the authors of "The Chronicles of Women in White...
A Spiritual Conversation in the Doctor’s Lounge
Sometimes you have the best conversations by chance and at the most unexpected time and place. You know, those conversations where someone says something to you and you feel as if it was God speaking to you through someone else. Recently I had one such conversation in...
I Am Responsible TO Others, Not FOR Them
Once upon a time, I went to counseling, for a year. The reason was that I had lost my empathy somewhere along the way in medical training. It was my husband who suggested I get help, because the numbness could no longer be turned ‘on’ and ‘off’ for my work and I...
How We Became the Women in White Coats
When I first thought about creating the book "The Chronicles of Women in White Coats." I thought it was just an idea. I had no clue who would buy into my dream of telling the real story of real women in medicine. I hesitated when I posted the invitation for authors in...
We Don’t Need to Fix Women, We Need to Fix the Leaky Leadership Pipeline
Data show over the past decade that more than 47 percent of medical students are women, yet the number of practicing physicians is around 33 percent. Even with the increasing numbers of women entering the field, the number in leadership positions is discouragingly...
Gun Safety: A “Touchy” Public Health Concern
On January 23rd 2018, a 15-year-old student shot sixteen people at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, killing two other 15-year-olds. Majority of the victims were between the ages of 14 and 18 years old. Thirty-two miles north from Benton, a 1997 school...
Finding a Career that Fits Your Passion
The story of how I found my career starts with my mother and her career. I am the daughter of an OBGYN mother. And not just any OBGYN. My mom is a solo practitioner and delivers over 650 babies annually. That's 1.78 babies delivered per day. As far back as I can...
Career Series: Q&A with a Sports Medicine Physician
Ever wondered what its like to be a sports medicine doctor or what it takes? Dr. Jessica Huerta, a primary care sports medicine physician, shares the inside scoop in our latest Q & A. What is your field? Primary care sports medicine How did you decide to go into your...
Decisions: Choosing Myself or Fellowship
Around the halfway mark of my second year of residency, I was asked to apply to be a neurocritical care fellow. Instead of being thrilled about it, I became nervous. Was this what I really wanted to do? Maybe this would give me some more time to grow into the doctor...
Finances: Making a Budget that Counts
Budgeting is a fundamental skill of adulthood that those in medicine don’t learn soon enough. I recently published a post called Got Debt?! The Truth About Paying for Medical School- Since We Can’t All Go to School for Free where I talked a lot about budgeting and how...
Nine New Years Fitness Tips For Women Doctors
As the New Year is upon us many of us women doctors are gathering our thoughts and writing resolutions for 2019. I hope one of your goals will include making your own health, fitness and wellness a priority if you haven’t already done so. Outside of being a practicing...
A Trip to Bethlehem
When I first decided to go to Israel, I have to admit that I knew it would be a trip of a lifetime. As a daughter of a Baptist minister and as a Christian myself, I learned about the many stories of Jesus Christ throughout my upbringing. Even with all this background...
Letting Go of 2018
So, I am not going to lie, I couldn’t wait for 2018 to be over. It had been a rough one -- full of extreme highs and valleys so low, that I often thought I could not nor would not be able to climb my way back out. While last year made me a published best-selling...
Why I Like My Commute
When you work in an emergency department and arrive at work, you never know what you will be walking into. I have had days where I walk in the department, set my bag down, put on my white coat, wrap my stethoscope around my neck and no sooner do I hear the radio going...
What Women Doctors Should Know About Intimate Partner Violence
On November 19, 2018, the country and the medical community were shocked by yet another mass shooting at Mercy Hospital Medical Center Chicago. Dr. Tamara O’Neal, Officer Samuel Jimenez, and pharmacist Dayna Less were the victims of a lone gunman. When an event like...
