Nature is My Medicine
On this Earth Day, “Nature is my medicine,” writes Sara Moss Wolfe and yes it is mine as well. As Albert Einstein stated, “Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” Some days that reassurance is all it takes to relax and make things better. Indeed, after a bad shift of twelve […]
How Meditation Saved Me
I wasn’t always a meditation teacher. I didn’t even meditate until 5 years into my career as a hospitalist. I suffered from severe burnout, and I was in desperate need of a change. Once I learned to meditate, everything started to improve. I stopped crying. I stopped having road rage. I was able to find […]
Physician Heal Thyself: 3 Tools Doctors Can Use to Prevent Burnout
It was a beautiful warm mid-July morning in Minnesota and I was taken by surprise by my feeling of complete and utter contentment. I was with my family bicycling around a lake on a smooth, groomed gravel path surrounded by trees, ferns and so many shades of green my breath was taken away. The cool […]
10 Healthy Ways for Women Doctors to Decompress
It is no secret. Often women are the keepers of their home. And it can drive you CRAZY! How can we keep our sanity? We need to give ourselves a time out and decompress. Decompressing is essential for your mental health. But how can you do that when you have patients to see, notes to […]
Ten Tips for Dr. Mom
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 prerequisites for medical school. I had […]
Girl Doc’s Gift Guide for that Special Guy
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 Coats” to share with us somethings that […]
Six Tips for Busy Women to Go Red
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 health threat to women? Cardiovascular disease and stroke are the leading cause of […]
Finances: Making a Budget that Counts
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 crucial that is to paying for medical […]
A Trip to Bethlehem
When I first decided to go to Israel, I have to admit that I knew it would be a trip of a lifetime. As a daughter of a Baptist minister and as a Christian myself, I learned about the many stories of Jesus Christ throughout my upbringing. Even with all this background knowledge, I learned […]
Culinary Medicine and How I Became The Foodie Physician
I often get emails from young bloggers, medical students and doctors who are just starting out. They ask me for advice on how I developed my website and brand and for any tips I may have to help them grow their followings and stand out in a sea of a million blogs. My answer is […]
