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Women Docs for Women Docs: Celebrating a year as editor-in-chief!
It has been a little over a year since I started my stint as editor-in-chief of the Women in White Coats blog. When I took up this exciting opportunity, you can bet that it was not without some trepidation. I was of course apprehensive with my main concern being...
Protecting Your Priorities And Living An Intentional Life
Congratulations! You have cleared the extraneous items from your day-to-day, so you can spend your precious time the way you want! The next step is maintaining your clutter-free task list. How do you keep the clutter out of the to-do list? First, set boundaries. You...
The Truth About Feeling Stuck
I remember looking forward to the day I graduated from residency for four years. I thought that I could not wait to feel the freedom of being an attending. There were several days and weeks during residency that I was sure I would never make it. When graduation day...
Physician Burnout Reexamined Part 2
In the last part of this essay, we learned that the evolution of medicine into a modern corporate beast has contributed to physician burnout. We learned that female physicians, physicians working for healthcare organizations, and physicians working more than fifty-one...
From the desk of the editor-in-chief: A Call For Action!
Summer is drawing to a close and everyone is preparing for school openings, fall terms in college, and a return to in-person work schedules. We should all have been vaccinated. But no, only 52.2 percent of Americans are vaccinated against Covid-19 as of August 25,...
What’s In A Name?
My name is Lichun Huo. Your first thought may be ‘how do you pronounce that?’ or “ what kind of funny name is that?”. Your thought most likely would not be ‘what a pretty name, or what an interesting name!” While my parents and grandparents meticulously...
Protecting Your Priorities And Living An Intentional Life
Congratulations! You have cleared the extraneous items from your day-to-day, so you can spend your precious time the way you want! The next step is maintaining your clutter-free task list. How do you keep the clutter out of the to-do list? First, set boundaries. You...
Finding Harmony in #WomeninMedicine Month
September is Women in Medicine Month, and I have loved seeing all the promotions. I have created some myself and shared them. Many women's physician wellness conferences are set in September to honor and amplify this. It is a time for celebration and...
Physician Burnout Reexamined Part 2
In the last part of this essay, we learned that the evolution of medicine into a modern corporate beast has contributed to physician burnout. We learned that female physicians, physicians working for healthcare organizations, and physicians working more than fifty-one...
Protecting Your Priorities And Living An Intentional Life
Congratulations! You have cleared the extraneous items from your day-to-day, so you can spend your precious time the way you want! The next step is maintaining your clutter-free task list. How do you keep the clutter out of the to-do list? First, set boundaries. You...
The Truth About Feeling Stuck
I remember looking forward to the day I graduated from residency for four years. I thought that I could not wait to feel the freedom of being an attending. There were several days and weeks during residency that I was sure I would never make it. When graduation day...
CoFounders Corner: Self-Care is Never Selfish
Dear Sister Docs, Recently, I was discussing self-care in our Physician Wellness Program. I know the term self-care is thrown around a lot, and it is becoming cliche to talk about it. But from my personal experience, I can tell you just how important it is and...
Women Docs for Women Docs: Celebrating a year as editor-in-chief!
It has been a little over a year since I started my stint as editor-in-chief of the Women in White Coats blog. When I took up this exciting opportunity, you can bet that it was not without some trepidation. I was of course apprehensive with my main concern being...
My Complicated Relationship With Dr. Sims: “Father Of Gynecology.”
I first learned of Dr. J. Marion Sims in 1986 during a gynecology lecture in my second year at the University Of Alabama, School Of Medicine. As the inventor of the vaginal speculum, he was introduced to us as the "father of gynecology," breaking norms of...
Burnout Reexamined: Before We Treat Physician Burnout, We Need to Know What Causes It
While chatting with a lovely octogenarian patient, he suddenly asked “Doc, did you always know you wanted to be a doctor?” I was raised in a medical household in a small town, and I learned early on the profound impact that a physician could have on a community....
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