September is National Suicide Prevention Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide rates in the United States increased approximately 30% from 1999 to 2016. Mental health conditions, relationship problems, life stressors, and...
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...
“How do you provide Community Service?” These six words from a ten year old Girl Scout created a turning point that led me on a beautiful journey. Like most physicians, my life revolved around long hours, insurance-based patient care, living through the frustration of...
My passion is simple, improving postpartum care for moms and newborns in the United States. The period right after delivery and up to 4 months is defined as the postpartum period or considered the 4th trimester. Within this period, moms are recovering from a...
Three years ago, I almost quit medicine. I left a clinical job that I loved to be closer to family. New job had me working eighty to one hundred hour weeks (more than residency). The environment was toxic and nepotism was rampant. Administration constantly reminded us...
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...
