A letter from our Co-Editor-In-Chief, Dr. Archana Shrestha, MD, MS, FACEP. Dear Reader, As we open up voting for the Women in White Coats Hero of the Year Award, I take pause to reflect on why this award is so important. The simple reason we put together this award is...
Happy New Year, to our fellow Women in White Coats! With the new year comes a chance for a fresh start and many of us set resolutions to make wellness, self-care and fitness a bigger priority in life. With that in mind we have put together a list of some of our...
I will say this one time: Don’t buy your female doctor friend/cousin/daughter-in-law a crockpot for Christmas. Because this really is a conversation about the invisible workload of women. We’ve come a long way; it’s true. But we have further to go. Women...
My fertility journey is not typical. I have not spent years “trying”. In fact, I have spent years trying NOT to get pregnant! My husband has two daughters – AND a vasectomy. So getting pregnant was a known challenge. Luckily, I like challenges. We went to an...
“Are you the doctor?” was the most frequently asked question I received from patients in my new practice. The 2nd most common question was “Are you old enough to be a doctor?”, followed by the rather blunt question “How old are...