Advice For All Our New Physicians – Part 2
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] In my chapter of The Chronicles of Women in White Coats, I touched on how the fear of becoming a statistic that supports the idea of the “July Effect” affected my ability to care for myself. For you who are starting out, you can learn from my experience […]
Thoughts of a Fat Physician
I’m fat. It’s fact. I’ve been fat for most of my life. There really is not a time that I don’t remember being fat. I was always heavier than girls in my classes in school. No matter how active I was I was always bigger. As I got older my eating habits changed and not […]
Advice for All Our New Physicians
Dr. Natasha Sriraman along with other Women in White Coats gives new interns advice about how to be successful in residency.
What its Like Being Married to a Black Woman Doctor
“We refuse to be what you wanted us to be; We are what we are; That’s the way (way) it’s going to be.” –Bob Marley and the Wailers The Trials of Mia Aretha (as Witnessed by Karl) For real though. Ordinarily I don’t vent in public. In fact, I am not active on any of […]
The Double Standard for Doctors
“Some reports have come in that you are unapproachable” “Excuse me” I said stone faced while my mind began racing and searching memory banks and files for any instance where I could have been accused of being rude, unapproachable, or unprofessional. No specifics were given but it was conveyed that there was a mass feeling […]
What Does It Really Mean To Be A Physician?
Phy·si·cian /fəˈziSHən noun: a person qualified to practice medicine. a person who cures moral or spiritual ills; a healer. This week is National Physicians’ Week, with March 30th being designated as a day to recognize and celebrate us as a profession. However, in this current environment we may not feel appreciated, in fact, it may […]
An ImPerfect Life Step
The one constant in life is change and I’m making a big one. It’s hard to be in the position of realizing that what you love to do is negatively impacting your loved one–ME! I have always grown up believing that as a woman I could have it all—and foolishly believed that meant at the […]
To Become Physician Seuss
Most of you will never knowWhat doctors do to fully growIt starts even right before collegeWhere we struggle for entry holding that knowledge If we are lucky enough to get some prestigeThere is much more work before we get any expertiseThe constant pressure to study study studyInternally yearning to just hang with our buddy While […]
A Love Letter to Medicine
Dear Medicine, I love you. And, I hate you. I love you because: You fascinate me! The inner workings of the body. How it functions without me even thinking about it. The anatomy. The physiology. It’s all so grand! How the pieces integrate seamlessly. And, how we have the ability to examine life at an […]
Letting Go of 2018
So, I am not going to lie, I couldn’t wait for 2018 to be over. It had been a rough one — full of extreme highs and valleys so low, that I often thought I could not nor would not be able to climb my way back out. While last year made me a published […]
