Genmedmom here. I'm nuts. But in a good, doctor-mom-nuts way.  I just started a DIY budget kitchen reorganization and makeover, in t...

On the face of it, a day at the clinic seems very social. I see patients, one after the other, from nine until four, with a break for lunch....

I’m driving the kids home from school, winding along Dollarton with afternoon sun glinting off Burrard Inlet, and Saskia’s telling me about ...

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Queen Elizabeth Theatre Every seat is taken. The theatre's lights are dimmed over a throng of excited Vancou...

In his NYT bestseller  'The Element' , Ken Robinson argues that we are in our element - doing what we should be doing - when we do...

I've agreed to a 45-minute presentation on medicine for my ten-year-old's science class this week. What to do? I've considered p...

by FreshMD | Martina Scholtens When Ilia was a few weeks old, Pete asked, and said it so casually from the couch where he was reading afte...

by FreshMD Last spring, my experience as physician, mother and patient intersected through a calamitous pregnancy loss. A few weeks ago (day...

by FreshMD I gave birth to a baby girl four weeks ago. This is where the statistics go, the measurements and time of birth, precise - to the...

I dislike that pregnancy forces me to bring my personal life into the office. I don't have pictures of my kids on my desk, I am vague wh...

Right now, this month, seven years out of residency with a part-time position at the refugee clinic and three and three-quarters children, I...

The immediate, unmistakable second pink line on the test laid on the bathroom counter - oh, the power of that pink line. The possibility tha...

I started my personal blog in October 2007, when I was working part-time and mother to a one-, three- and six-year-old. It made perfect sen...

I've always looked young, and received countless remarks to the same as a medical student. The comments were made in a marveling or appr...

Abscess incision and drainage does not disgust me; in fact, I find it out-and-out gratifying. Most clinical events which might make non-medi...

I get up at 6:40, always reluctantly. I shuffle downstairs to eat a bowl of granola with yogurt while checking email. Ten minutes later Aria...

Ariana at 3 weeks, wearing a sweater I knit during my pregnancy. Had she been a boy, I would have still made him wear it home from the hospi...

September 2001 One year and three months into a two-year residency, I give birth to my daughter. I am eligible for one year of maternity l...

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should...

The end of this month marks Mothers in Medicine's one year anniversary. In honor of this great occasion, I asked our writers to share th...