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Saving Lives For Two
When I was pregnant with my first child, I worked full-time as a physician in the emergency department. I worked mostly 9-hour shifts, but some 12-hour shifts as well. Days, evenings, nights, holidays and weekends were divided up amongst the entire group of...
Eat, Sleep, Sports
I recall being at a friend’s house in elementary school, sitting around with a few other girls. I watched as they cut pictures of their favorite outfits and actresses out of magazines and glued them onto coloured construction paper. I have a separate distinct memory...
When Your Passion Evolves
I wanted to be a doctor since the age of two. It was my God-ordained purpose in life and I fulfilled it; but about seven years in I was looking for a way out. In the beginning, the chaos and turmoil was exciting. Once I realized I wasn’t saving lives every day like I...
How Rheumatology Picked Me
I always knew I wanted to be a doctor growing up. In part, my parents (and pretty much all Indian parents) expected that was what I had to be. I did well in my science and math classes, volunteered at a hospital, did all the “right” stuff. I imagined having those...
Happiness Only 5 Pounds Away
I felt hungry before I went to bed last night. My stomach definitely feels flatter this morning. Could today be the day that I hit my goal weight? I stumble out of bed, hit the potty, and take off my pajamas. I zero the scale for a third time, and I step on with...
14 Survival Tips for Women Interns
This year, for the first time ever, medical schools nationwide welcomed a class of students that is majority female. In fact, there are some medical schools that are comprised of 60% women in their first year class. While the field of medicine is difficult, women in...
When Health and Politics Collide: A Child in the ER Whose Only Symptom is Fear
It’s a Sunday evening in a local South Texas Emergency Room with the expected normal ER traffic for a weekend evening. Lots of simple traumas for a weekend: ankle sprains, abrasions, lacerations, simple falls as well as common URI (upper respiratory infection)...
Time to Tame the Beast of Burnout
It was my final year in medical school. In less than a month, my classmates and I would be graduating from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, a premier institution at that time in West Africa. We would be graduating with an M.D. degree as doctors. Fortunately, a...
Advice for the International Medical Student: The Match and Beyond
Graduation season has passed, new residents have started and fourth year medical students are gearing up to apply for next year’s match cycle. Twitter feeds are exploding with #TipsForNewDocs, with advice being offered to the newbie physicians from healthcare...
