Living in Green Bay can be a lot of fun. Among other things, there is football and there are four seasons. And it has great health care. Green Bay has been in the top 50 list of cities with excellent healthcare, including one of the top hospitals in the country....
Just last week was Diwali, the Indian festival of lights that is now celebrated universally. It is a celebration of good over evil and light over darkness. This was my first Diwali spent with none of my two children at home and it was a new experience for me. With my...
It has been a little over a year since I started my stint as editor-in-chief of the Women in White Coats blog. When I took up this exciting opportunity, you can bet that it was not without some trepidation. I was of course apprehensive with my main concern being...
I first learned of Dr. J. Marion Sims in 1986 during a gynecology lecture in my second year at the University Of Alabama, School Of Medicine. As the inventor of the vaginal speculum, he was introduced to us as the “father of gynecology,”...
While chatting with a lovely octogenarian patient, he suddenly asked “Doc, did you always know you wanted to be a doctor?” I was raised in a medical household in a small town, and I learned early on the profound impact that a physician could have on a community....
I am a Writers Fellow for Women in White Coats. How did I get here, and what is it like? Would you like to be in the next class of physician writers? When I started feeling overwhelmed and burned out in my life and career, I sought out help in the form of...
