Book 4 Excerpt: Resilience
This week on the blog, we are sharing an excerpt of the chapter Dr. Kimberly Meyers wrote in the fourth installment of The Chronicles of Women in White Coats! Keep reading to learn how she developed a resiliency starting at a young age: The word “Doctor” means teacher. I strive to teach other women the […]
Book 3 Excerpt: Beyond Burnout
This week on the blog, we are sharing an excerpt of the chapter Dr. Archana Shrestha wrote in the third installment of The Chronicles of Women in White Coats! Keep reading to learn more about her personal experience with burnout: It’s the summer of 2020, and there’s a huge smile on my face as I […]
Book 4 Excerpt: Hidden Talents
This week on the blog, we are sharing an excerpt of the chapter Dr. Kim Nichols wrote in the latest installment of The Chronicles of Women in White Coats! Keep reading to learn more about her background with mentoring: Although I enjoyed the new practice and all of my interactions with the learners, I still […]
Book 4 Sneak Peek: Music and Medicine by Dr. Amber Robins
This week on the blog, we are sharing a preview of the chapter Dr. Amber Robins wrote in the latest installment of The Chronicles of Women in White Coats! Keep reading to learn more about her background with music: As a kid, I saw many family members in the hospital. The music that I would […]
5 Ways to Advocate Instead of Complicate Your Family Member’s Healthcare
Physicians, dentists, and other health professionals rarely talk about when physicians advocate or interfere in their family member’s healthcare. I strongly suspect we have all encountered this emotionally-charged subject. And what is the best way to navigate through issues of providing or advocating a loved one’s medical care as a medical professional? Ethical Dilemmas Have […]
A Doctor’s Reaction to AAPI Stereotypes in Pixar’s New “Turning Red” Movie
I Was Raised by South Asian Immigrant Parents I was born in a small American town and raised in a family with South Asian roots. My physician father immigrated to the United States during the “brain drain” between 1966-1975 when physicians and scientists from developing countries were welcomed to developed nations to fill science and […]
Confronting Racism in Health & Medicine: How to Move Beyond the Pandemic
A February 2021 JAMA podcast and corresponding (now redacted) tweet suggested that structural racism does not exist and that no physicians are racist. For the record, structural racism is defined as a system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity. […]
Editor’s Corner: Why Women Doctors Are Outraged at a Popular Scrubs Company
As we finish up 2021, we are flashing back to one of our most read blog posts from 2020. This is an open letter from our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Anupuma Verma, to FIGS in response to a controversial and poorly received ad used to promote their products. Picture by Dr. K Kay Moody who is a […]
“Throwing My Life Away” Was the Best Decision I Ever Made
As medical students, we are trained to anticipate the next step, being a resident. As a resident, we are consistently reminded that there are offices, hospitals, clinics, etc. that need us. The position is waiting; you just have to fall in line and find the right one. But what if how you practice medicine doesn’t […]
Poetry During COVID: A Team-Building Experience
In March 2020, SARS-CoV-2, also known as Coronavirus 19, entered our lives and changed us all forever. Both small and large gatherings ended, and our hospital division stopped having in-person meetings. Suddenly, teleconferences became the way to communicate with each other. While meeting attendance increased because it was easy to log on from home, seeing […]
