Errin Weisman, DO is a life coach, speaker and fierce advocate for wellness in medicine. She faced professional burnout early in her career and speaks openly about about her story in order to help others, particularly female physicians and working moms, know they are...
Annette K. Ansong, MD, FACC is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist. The daughter of immigrants from Ghana, she grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. For college, she attended the University of Virginia. After graduating from medical school at...
That was quite a storm! 100 mph winds, rain pouring so hard it hurt, vivid lightening and deafening thunder.Did you see it too? Probably not…Because it all just occurred in my mind.The storm that brewed from a flood of thoughts – my brain taking me to all the...
As Co-Editor-in-Chief, of Women in White Coats, a blog dedicated to being THE VOICE of women doctors, I see one topic come up over and over again among writers and members of our tribe and that is burnout. We get submission after submission on this topic each with a...
It was February of the year 2007. I was an intern, a PGY-1 Internal Medicine Resident. Only a few more months as the junior most doctor doing scutwork in the hospital. I couldn’t wait for July to come around when I could wear the mantle of an experienced PGY-2. A...
