Being a doctor is hard, being a mother is just as hard if not harder; and being both often seems impossible. Looking back at my medical career it is difficult to fathom doing both. I was an older, non-traditional student when I returned back to college to complete my...
If you are anything like me, you have a hard time figuring out what to get the special guy in your life for Valentine’s day. How many coffee mugs, neck ties and slippers can a guy receive? We asked the authors of “The Chronicles of Women in White...
“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.” These are the words of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. By doing so on January 23rd 1849,...
February — the month of Valentines, chocolate, roses and celebrating our significant other. And of course, wearing something RED! However, February is close to the heart for another very important reason. Did you know that heart disease continues to be the greatest...
Errin Weisman, DO is a life coach, speaker and fierce advocate for wellness in medicine. She faced professional burnout early in her career and speaks openly about about her story in order to help others, particularly female physicians and working moms, know they are...
Annette K. Ansong, MD, FACC is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist. The daughter of immigrants from Ghana, she grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. For college, she attended the University of Virginia. After graduating from medical school at...
That was quite a storm! 100 mph winds, rain pouring so hard it hurt, vivid lightening and deafening thunder.Did you see it too? Probably not…Because it all just occurred in my mind.The storm that brewed from a flood of thoughts – my brain taking me to all the...
As Co-Editor-in-Chief, of Women in White Coats, a blog dedicated to being THE VOICE of women doctors, I see one topic come up over and over again among writers and members of our tribe and that is burnout. We get submission after submission on this topic each with a...
It was February of the year 2007. I was an intern, a PGY-1 Internal Medicine Resident. Only a few more months as the junior most doctor doing scutwork in the hospital. I couldn’t wait for July to come around when I could wear the mantle of an experienced PGY-2. A...
Budgeting is a fundamental skill of adulthood that those in medicine don’t learn soon enough. I recently published a post called Got Debt?! The Truth About Paying for Medical School- Since We Can’t All Go to School for Free where I talked a lot about budgeting and how...