Reflections from the Women in White Coats Virtual Conference
Whoa!!!! I can’t believe that we are now on the other side of the Women in White Coats Virtual Conference. We put in so much to make it a success and it was literally beyond anything we could have dreamed of! It was absolutely AMAZING!!!! And you know why? Because we had so many of […]
Career Move: Your Family Will Thank You Later
One evening after a exhausting clinic day, I was again the last parent to pick up my two boys from daycare. My husband was working late, so I was on my own. We drove home and I fed and bathed my littles entirely on autopilot. They splashed like Shamu in their bubble bath, giggling as […]
Preparing the Next Generation through COVID19
I’m a retired veteran and medical epidemiologist from the CDC and a board-certified OB/GYN who loves working in underserved hospitals and FQHCs, and even I never thought it would get to this. The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has taken us by storm and caught us off-guard. The public health prevention safeguards that I studied, implemented and […]
Editor’s Corner: What Women Doctors are Saying About the Pandemic
Letter to readers from our Editor-In-Chief, Dr. Amber Robins. Sis, how are you? Over the past few weeks our worlds have literally been turned upside down. I personally have never imagined that we would be in such a state as this. In our country we continue to work tirelessly on the front lines for our patients […]
A Medical Student’s Experience During COVID-19
Two days ago I was sitting in class studying the synthesis of neurotransmitters. Today, I’m sitting on a flight to Jacksonville, Fl around my midterms thinking about how ungrateful I must be to be so heartbroken. Let me explain. I’m a first year medical student at St. George’s University, and I’ve been evacuated to the […]
Shortage: A Doctor’s View of COVID-19
We are practicing in a time of shortage. This is something we are used to in emergency medicine. We adapt. We don’t have furosemide? Fine, I’ll use bumetanide. We don’t have LET cream? Fine, I’ll use lidocaine solution. We find work arounds for equipment we don’t have and drugs we can’t get on a daily […]
Should We Call Our Patients “Customers?”
I know an emergency physician who calls his patients “customers.” Every time I hear him do so, I sort of cringe inside. I have yet to ask him why he says it. He does so sometimes in a joking manner but other times says it so matter-of-fact. But he does so rather consistently going about […]
Family Size and Tabboo Questions
“Are you done?” When I got this seemingly innocuous question at a recent holiday party, time seemed to freeze. After muttering a slow but convincing “Yes, we’re done,” the new mom who asked went on to explain how she thought I might be “trying for four or five,” since I spoke so lovingly about those […]
Burnout – It is not just occupational!
It started off as a normal Sunday. I went for yoga in the morning and then made some home cooked food for my daughter to take to school. She goes to college at Ohio State University and had come home for the weekend. She left around 6:30 pm that evening and it usually takes her […]
Bye Bye Mommy Guilt, Hello Self-Care
I took a ballet class this week! It may sound crazy to some people, and may not sound like a big deal to others, but I’ve been really excited about it! Since I was 5 years old, I’ve loved to dance. I was never a professional dancer, but I did ballet, jazz, and modern dance […]
