Reflections on Confidence: How to be a Rockstar in 2021
At the end of 2016, I found myself on a crisp overcast day staring across the Seine at the Eiffel Tower and the surrounding park. I was stretching and about to hit start on my watch for a twelve-mile training run. The day before, I had traveled alone over the Atlantic, taken a train to […]
Transforming Your Pain & Grief During the Holidays
It is the holiday season. All around us are commercials, advertisements, and decorations promoting “Holiday Cheer!” We are inundated with expectations of joy and happiness on television, radio, and the internet. However, some of us may have a heavy heart due to losing a loved one and need encouragement. Grief around the holidays is often […]
COVID -19 and The City: A doctor’s experience.
My professional experience with COVID-19 was that I lost my clinic. I am a pediatrician working in a school-based health center on a high school campus in the South Bronx. When Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio discussed whether or not to close the public schools, I was on the edge of my seat for many […]
The Truth About Feeling Stuck
I had been looking forward to the day I graduated residency for four years. I could not wait to feel the freedom of being an attending (at least that’s how I thought I would feel!), There were several days/weeks during residency that I was sure I would never make it. When the day finally came, […]
The Case for Taking Risks Outside of Medicine
I was an economics major in college who did not intend on going to medical school. However, like many other idealistic young people, when the time came to choose, I thought about how I would view my life at the end. What would I be able to say that I was proud of? In medicine, […]
Editor’s Corner: Lessons for Women Doctors from #Notorious RBG
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”– Ruth Bader Ginsburg Last week all over the news were reflections on the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I have to admit that I didn’t know much about Ruth Bader Ginsburg until […]
Editor’s Corner: Power in Your Purpose
I remember when I lined up among a huge crowd just to be able to squeeze into the movie theater and see Black Panther. I would do that same thing at least 3 times more times. Why? Because it was one of the first times where I saw people who looked like me put on […]
A Bride’s Reflections During COVID
I never could have dreamed that I would be getting married during a pandemic. As a little girl, that was not on my must have list. I didn’t think that I would ever wear a mask with my wedding dress. Yet here we are. In 2020, it’s my reality. My future husband and I are […]
Forever Our Heroes
Was everyone in med school as young, innocent, and wildly stupid as we were? The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine required superlatives: most, best, fastest… dumbest? Before each test, my friend Frank and I would scroll through our mental Rolodexes of “what are our other options?” (As opposed to being stuck inside with Clinical […]
Reflections on Juneteenth
I am so honored to celebrate our oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the USA. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the slaves were now free! On that day, Union Major-General Gordon Granger read this General Order No. 3 to the people of Galveston: The […]
