I am typing this on the fourth computer I've used in the past year. When I started a work-from-home job in August, they gave me a nice n...

So I've been a little - scarce around here lately. My last post was in July, and that was just a link to a piece I had published on Puls...

I had a piece published in the Pulse section called "More Voices." (if you read MiM and haven't yet read Pulse , stop now and ...

This is a Daughters in Medicine post. (which really does describe me - I'm a third-generation doc. And that is and isn't relevant t...

Not my gratitude. My kid's gratitude. I will preface this by saying that Eve is almost always a delight. She's smart and funny and...

I've been re-watching The West Wing lately - my Netflix version of re-reading a favorite novel, which I also do frequently. In the episo...

When I was a kid, my dad was on call all the time. I am not exaggerating. He was in practice with my grandfather (his father-in-law.) Nat (m...

I've been reading The Grumpy Rumblings of the (Formerly) Untenured blog lately. Their personal finance posts make me kind of uncomfortab...

A keeps telling me what to do. She's so mean. It's like she's my mother. Hey. I'm not mean. True. It's like she'...

One of my mother's cousins died yesterday. I hadn't seen in her a long time - there's a fair amount of distance in my family, ...

This morning as she read the newspaper report of yet another shooting death. Why does this keep happening, Mom? It's complicated. ...

I used to think that I was drawn to hospice practice because I wasn't one of those doctors that had to fix everything. I'm comfortab...

Hello! I'm Jay. I've been hanging out here and commenting for a long time. I used to blog on Two Women Blogging (don't go lookin...