February 14, 2018. Valentine’s Day. I was home with my then 3 month-old son, on my day off from work. My husband and I planned to meet up to have a bite together on his lunch break. We had a “fancy” lunch at Honey Baked Ham, and I headed home with our youngest. When...
Relationships in medical training are never easy. I was engaged while long-distance, planned a wedding from across the country, and did not move in with my husband until six months after we tied the knot. And this was all before the pandemic, so I can only imagine how...
Early in March, allegations of sexual misconduct by a resident physician became public. A social worker alleged that a resident physician sent her inappropriate, sexually charged texts and photos and that he pressed into her without her consent. Since then, several...
Indeed, 2020 was a time of reflection for us all. A reflection on society, on the state of the world’s affairs, on ourselves and our own lives. I don’t know about you, but I have been gobsmacked at the amount of “excess,” in general, with which we are...
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...
