The #MeToo movement is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault. #MeToo spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag used on social media in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the...
#WomenInMedicineMonth This was me in 1998 at my Medical School graduation day in New York City. I had just gotten married a month prior. Wow, not only do I look really young but I had no idea what my journey would entail as I would start Pediatric internship in just a...
The majority of women entering medical school are now women, leading to more women residents. Women physicians are in all specialties and all fields, medical and surgical. As an academic pediatrician, I train medical students and residents on a daily basis. Not...
Last week, The Dallas Medical Journal in their issue titled “Women In Medicine” asked local physicians if they believed a gender wage gap existed, and if so, what were the causes and what can the medical community do about it? The uproar, which I’m sure many of you...
I was a 3rd year medical student in Brooklyn, New York. As an Indian immigrant with physician parents, I had experienced various aspects of healthcare from numerous perspectives. However, growing up in rural Pennsylvania, my parents’ patient population was much...
