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Six Wedding Planning Tips for Busy Women In White Coats
Getting engaged to my fiancé was one of the most exciting days of my life! After the initial shock of getting engaged wore off about two weeks later (I still can’t believe it sometimes), I realized there are A LOT of logistics involved in planning a wedding. Like most...
Career Series: Q&A with a Pediatric Hospitalist
We know we have lots of students and trainees looking for career advice on our Women In White Coats blog, so we decided to put together a Career Series to help you better understand what the different fields and specialties within healthcare are like. To kick off this...
A Doctor’s Encounter with Gun Violence
It was 5:27pm, on a Friday evening, when the pager went off. “Ugh”, said the intern, “Three minutes before shift change and the ER is paging for another admission!” I could see the dismay on his face as he dreaded the thought of staying late on yet another Friday...
Team Work Makes the Dream Work
I love sports analogies. I grew up playing many sports, field hockey, softball, and competitive swimming. As a physician I see so many parallels in the worlds of sports and medicine. There is so much in competition and team play that mirrors the way departments work...
Three Lessons Learned from a Doctor’s First Mammogram
It amazes me how quickly time passes now. For half of this year, I was telling people that I am 42, but I had been 43 for months. Oh my! Don’t get me wrong, I am not hooked on age and to be honest, I am grateful for every single birthday I get to celebrate. This...
From Defeated to Dreaming Big
From the time I was a school girl I wanted to be an author. I remember writing and taking very seriously a book that I had authored in elementary school. It was written in one of those blank hardcover bound books with white pages inside. I wrote the story and of...
The Seeds Left Behind
It is time to pull out the tomato plants. It is barely past mid-July, they are just reaching their sweet, juicy abundance, and I have to remove them from the garden. We are leaving. My husband has military orders to Texas. The house has been sold. I need to sterilize...
The Birth of the Writer in Me
'Write a novel' sat on my annual bucket list for over 10 years. I sat down many times to start, however nothing ever came of it. I knew from somewhere deep inside that medicine was not creative enough for me. I truly realized this one day, several years ago, when I...
Drugs, Race, and Opioids
As a family doctor, I prescribe opioids judiciously. My training taught me to be careful with each and every pill I prescribe, as each script could add another victim to the opioid crisis at the forefront of our country’s current health agenda. However, despite those...
When Privilege Undermines Empathy
Recently, I had my first experience serving as the supervising attending at The Sharewood Project, a free clinic that serves mostly immigrant families and those that have no insurance. In addition to medical students, we have dental residents, dermatology residents,...
