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URGENT: The Surprising Thing PMS is Trying to Tell Your Body
As a woman, have you ever been asked the question “Is it that time of the month again”? It’s typically asked in a snarky, sarcastic manner, and usually comes from our partner, family members, or close friends. This euphemism actually refers to a woman being on her...
Learn 2 Ways to Reconnect with Your Body As a Woman Doctor
Something happens to doctors in our training process, we stop listening to our bodies. We learn how to disconnect from our bodies. I remember being a 3rd-year medical student scrubbed into an 8-hour vascular case and retracting the body cavity for the surgeon. I was...
Physician Burnout and Depression During the Pandemic: An Alarming Update
Physician burnout has been a pressing topic for years, but as we enter the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, how have things changed? How has Covid-19 impacted doctors? Quick Review of Medscape’s 2021 Physician Burnout and Depression Report To quickly review,...
How Restorative Rest Can Boost Your Productivity in 3 Simple Ways
As women doctors, we love being productive. Some of us are workaholics. We could even be called high-achievers. Regardless, all of us have a hard time sitting down to relax. I know that’s been the case for me. But I have discovered there are 3 important ways resting...
Go to the Doctor, Doc! How to Navigate Getting Care as a Physician
As an emergency doctor, I find it hard to go to the doctor. After years of work in an emergency department, my first thought is usually this: “the symptoms I’m experiencing are probably minor.” I question whether it requires me, a doctor, to go to another...
5 Reasons Why a Great Work Culture Will Lead to Higher Employee Retention
Among the many impacts brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, a surprise has been what analysts call The Great Resignation. According to the article, Who is Driving the Great Resignation? by Ian Cook, Harvard Business Review, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates...
Three Things Women Doctors Need To Thrive Right Now
Spring is in the air, even here in Chicago where I live. When spring rolls around, I always feel a sense of renewal and rebirth. This is the perfect time to reevaluate where we are and what we, as women doctors, need now to succeed and thrive. I believe it comes down...
How 20 Minutes a Day Can Absolutely Improve Your Body, No More Excuses!
Not enough time in the day to exercise? It doesn’t take long grueling hours at the gym. It doesn’t even require a drive to the gym, which is even more of a time saver! I don’t know about you, but the way the world is today, I don’t want to step foot in that...
5 Ways to Create and Plan Your Own Personally Curated Retreat
Think back to the last glorious vacation you took that felt like a retreat. Wouldn’t it be nice to recreate this same uplifting experience close to home? I remember mine - an off-season trip to a Caribbean Island during a time when I was burned out from work. We were...
Confronting Racism in Health & Medicine: How to Move Beyond the Pandemic
A February 2021 JAMA podcast and corresponding (now redacted) tweet suggested that structural racism does not exist and that no physicians are racist. For the record, structural racism is defined as a system in which public policies, institutional practices,...
