Ever wondered what its like to be a pediatrician or what it takes? Dr. Natasha Sriraman, a pediatrician, shares the inside scoop in our latest Q & A. What is your field? Pediatrics, Breastfeeding Medicine, Public Health What is your title? Associate Professor of...
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...
“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,...
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...