by Danielle Johnson | Sep 17, 2019 | Be the Change
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide rates in the United States increased more than 30% from 1999 to 2017. More than half (54%) of people who died by suicide did not...
by Melissa Parsons | Sep 6, 2019 | Be the Change, Feature, Uncategorized
My fertility journey is not typical. I have not spent years “trying”. In fact, I have spent years trying NOT to get pregnant! My husband has two daughters – AND a vasectomy. So getting pregnant was a known challenge. Luckily, I like challenges. We went to an...
by Ucchena Umeh | Jul 3, 2019 | Be the Change
So, I was minding my business doing school work at home last Monday, when I looked at my phone and noticed a message on Facebook messenger from a random gentleman that I had never heard of before. He introduced himself as Dr. Wilson Lam, a member of a group of doctors...
by Amanda Mohammed | May 21, 2019 | Be the Change
Being in medicine requires practitioners to be more than a clinician but also an advocate, coordinator, counselor, information resource and supporter for patients. As physicians we are in an unique position to understand and treat the protean manifestations of...
by Akua Ampadu | May 16, 2019 | Be the Change
Last year a Texas based physician came under fire after he was quoted in a medical journal stating female physicians earn less because we do not “work as hard”. A repost on the Facebook group Physician Mom’s Group, an online community of over 70,000...
by Bande M. Virgil & Natasha K. Sriraman | Apr 28, 2019 | Be the Change
On a busy clinic day in my previous life as an outpatient pediatrician, I recall multitasking from one exam room to the next on a weekday afternoon. Typically, newborns were scheduled for the morning, mostly to ensure things like jaundice checks could be done in a...
