Episode #37: The Gender Moonshot and Gender Parity in Medicine with Dr. Shikha Jain
This week we speak with Dr. Shikha Jain, a 2021 Women in White Coats Hero nominee about gender inequity in medicine and her recent TedX talk on the Gender Moonshot. Dr. Shikha Jain is a hematology and oncology physician and Founder and Chair of the Women in Medicine...
Episode #36: Living Your Bucket List Now with Palliative Care Physician Dr. Faryal Michaud
In this episode we sit down with one of our 2021 Women in White Coats Hero nominees to discuss why its so important to live your bucket list now. Dr. Faryal Michaud is a palliative care physician and life coach and she shares the lessons she has learned working with...
Episode #35: How To Turn Your Passion into Profit During a Pandemic
Listen in as Women in White Coats Cofounders, Dr. Amber Robins and Dr. Archana Shrestha, discuss how they got started as entrepreneurs and how they turned their passion into a profitable business. They also discuss the mindset shifts that women doctors in particular...
Reflections on Confidence: How to be a Rockstar in 2021
At the end of 2016, I found myself on a crisp overcast day staring across the Seine at the Eiffel Tower and the surrounding park. I was stretching and about to hit start on my watch for a twelve-mile training run. The day before, I had traveled alone over the...
Transforming Your Pain & Grief During the Holidays
It is the holiday season. All around us are commercials, advertisements, and decorations promoting “Holiday Cheer!” We are inundated with expectations of joy and happiness on television, radio, and the internet. However, some of us may have a heavy heart...
Co-founder’s Corner: Turn Your Passion Into Profits During A Pandemic
Dear Reader, Growing up, I never thought I’d be an entrepreneur. I never had a lemonade stand as a kid. I often asked my mom to sell Girl Scout cookies for me by taking my order form to work with her. I certainly wasn’t a kid who enjoyed selling. But somehow...
Be the Change We So Desperately Need
I live just 20 minutes away from where it happened. Living in the area surrounding Washington, DC, I have seen various protests that grace our nation’s capital occurring daily. These vibrant and often encouraging voices of change have been the reasons for many street...
Reflections on George Floyd from a Doctor and Immigrant Mother
I finally mustered the courage, took a deep breath, grabbed my bags, and walked into the hospital. I arrived 20 minutes early for my overnight shift, and sat in my car, in silence, hesitant to leave the garage. I was dreading the walk from the employee garage to the...
The 4-1-1 on Masks from a Doctor and Surgeon
There seems to be a lot of confusion and misinformation about wearing a mask, so as a physician I feel compelled to offer some advice based on science. Somewhere over the past few months we have gone from “healthcare heroes” to the evil people trying to take away...
Making Babies with Love and Science
Most people haven’t given infertility a second thought, let alone the profession of embryology, until they are unfortunately faced with the need for infertility care. An embryologist is a fertility specialist that helps to create embryos to either be used in IVF right...
Successful, Fulfilled and High-Performing Teams Are Led With Empathy.
We are all doing our best to find a way to effectively manage and successfully adapt during these rapidly changing times. As opposed to reacting, we are planning, responding, and evolving in ways that are more attune to our wide range of emotional signals. I think a...
Editor’s Corner: Give Yourself Permission to Use Your Degree as You Choose
A letter from our Co-Editor-In-Chief, Dr. Archana Shrestha: Dear Reader, I was coaching a woman physician the other day who is wanting to make a transition in her medical career. One of the exercises that I had her do was a "No List" of things she doesn't want to do...
The Holiday Balancing Act As A Physician Mom
We have all been looking forward to some joy in the last few months. With the raging pandemic, contentious election, and recurring evidence of racism all over the news, we are ready for a bit of sparkle now. We hope the holiday season will be just what we need to...
When do I talk to my kids about “the birds and the bees”?
Do you feel like you are putting this conversation off? Don't know how to get started? Are you dreading it? Well, your kids are dreading it, too, depending on their ages. My patients often ask me about introducing this topic and how awkward they think it might be. I...
Spouse Dumping: Bad News for Good Relationships
We all do it. We have bad days. Terrible traffic. A horrendous workload. Difficult faculty. Insurance disasters. An argument with staff. A patient you just couldn’t save. As physicians, we often come home running empty on food, hydration, and patience, and full of...
Yes, that is Dr. Jill Biden to You
What is it with a woman or person of color with an advanced degree that makes some men see red? A writer from the Wall Street Journal penned an Op-Ed about First Lady-elect Dr. Jill Biden and how she should drop the doctor title from her name. My initial reaction was...
Maintaining Professional Balance: Balance does not mean equal
How do you maintain balance in your professional life? That is the million-dollar question. The most important thing to understand and accept is that balance does not mean everything is always being handled equally at any one time. This acceptance was eye-opening for...
Editor’s Corner: #ThisIsOurShot to End the Pandemic
If 2020 was the year of the coronavirus pandemic, 2021 has got to be the year of vaccinations. The miracle of modern science, generous funding, and expedited research has led to us having possibly three available vaccines to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic....
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