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Moving Beyond The U.S. Capitol Riots
Moving Beyond The U.S. Capitol Riots January 6, 2021. This day will definitely go down in history. I remember sitting downstairs in front of the building that houses my Pediatric clinic. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been performing visits for our sick...
Black Women in Medicine – Why Do We Need Them?
On February 3rd, we celebrated National Women Physicians Day. This day was chosen to honor the birthday of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell – the first woman to obtain a medical degree in the United States. February is also Black History Month. As young children, we learn so...
Happy Mardi Gras…But It Won’t Be the Same This Year
“If more people get COVID, will Mardi Gras be cancelled?????”, the exasperated tone evident in the punctuation chosen by a mother, asking how to answer that question for her children, as they prepare for the unknowns of the upcoming holiday season. As a...
The Three Key Steps in Taking Care of Your Heart During a Pandemic
Every February, we raise awareness for heart disease in celebration of American Heart Month. Although our attention this year is focused on COVID-19, we must not forget the effect that heart disease has on the lives of so many Americans. According to the CDC, a...
Beyond Dr. Blackwell: A History and Physical
CC: Female physician wearing scrubs, #wearfigs History of Presenting Illness (HPI): Figs is a scrubs company owned by females The company released an ad for their scrubs x 1 day The ad portrayed a female physician as (in no particular order):...
From 9/11 to the Capitol Riots
In the fall of 2001, I was a medical student doing an Internal Medicine clerkship in Brooklyn, New York City. Every morning we attended “morning report” from 8-9 am in a basement conference room. Morning report is an hour-long conference during which cases from...
Know Your Breastfeeding Rights
Have you ever had your rights violated as a breastfeeding woman? Have you ever been told that you cannot breastfeed your baby or cannot pump when you needed to? A recent news story about a breastfeeding mom in California described her experience in online higher...
A First: A Second Gentleman
Congratulations, ladies, we will have a Second Gentleman! Now you may ask why I am celebrating this? We will soon be witnessing the inauguration of Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden. This inauguration is going to be historic and groundbreaking...
CoFounders Corner: The 21st Century is the Century of Women
Dear Readers, This week I had the opportunity to sit down and interview an 85 year old woman, the wife of the late surgical oncologist Dr. LeRoy Groshong, MD. You likely know his medical invention the Groshong catheter (a tunneled catheter used for oncology...
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...
