Was everyone in med school as young, innocent, and wildly stupid as we were? The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine required superlatives: most, best, fastest… dumbest? Before each test, my friend Frank and I would scroll through our mental Rolodexes of...
I finally mustered the courage, took a deep breath, grabbed my bags, and walked into the hospital. I arrived 20 minutes early for my overnight shift, and sat in my car, in silence, hesitant to leave the garage. I was dreading the walk from the employee garage to the...
Which Comes First: Family or Career? What if I say you don’t have to choose? If you have a family and a career, you know there is no “first”. Both are important and both will race for attention, often with one winning out one minute, the next winning out the...
There seems to be a lot of confusion and misinformation about wearing a mask, so as a physician I feel compelled to offer some advice based on science. Somewhere over the past few months we have gone from “healthcare heroes” to the evil people trying to take away...
I am so honored to celebrate our oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the USA. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the slaves were now free! On that day, Union Major-General Gordon Granger read this...
It was only after attending the WIWC Virtual Conference a few weeks ago that it finally dawned on me – the realization that I had finally arrived at a place that just four short years ago, I never thought I’d reach: the other side of burn out. To be honest, I’m not...
