A lot has been written about mentorship. In medicine, we are often assigned mentors based on our clinical or research interests.  Sometimes...

This summer, my three kids spent several weeks with my parents in their home in Connecticut.  For the kids, this is an amazing time when t...

I just finished two of my best weeks as attending on the wards. It’s hard to describe exactly why these two weeks were so great but I think...

I have always been a maker of to-do lists.  Ever since childhood, I enjoyed making to-do lists and checking of completed tasks.  But somewh...

When I was a little girl, the last few weeks of the summer were filled with mixed emotions. It was still summer vacation but I knew that fa...

My mother is a doctor who started a solo practice in the 1970s when there weren’t many working mothers, let alone working mother doctor...

I have been following the response to Sir Tim Hunt’s incredibly sexist comments on women in science and thinking about how it relates to a...

Hello, I am Doctor Professor Mom.   No, that’s not my real name but it’s a name that makes me really proud.   My oldest son coined it ...