Welcome to our topic week celebrating imperfection. All the posts this week contributed by readers and regular contributors will be about th...

1. I've allowed my daughter to watch 4 hours of consecutive Dora while I half sleep on the couch post call (unfortunately this one has h...

Today was a beautiful day. This winter has had a long and unexpected and not entirely welcome coda this year which has only sweetened the an...

It's Being Imperfect Week... I don't know where to start. 1. I fed my cats a 5$ can of fancy Italian tuna packed in olive oil.  ...

Guilt was one of the first feelings I experienced upon learning I was pregnant with my daughter, now 4 years old. I had been on a pub ...

My talking toddler is an amazing little creature. At first he would mostly babble and jargon, now he says sentences. His newest feat is to r...

I’m writing this with my laptop perched on a giant stack of review notes and printed lecture slides and I am purposefully ignoring the multi...

I admit I’m not a perfect mother. I wish at the end of the day, I can see all the bathwater that has sloshed out of the tub and likely ma...

I desperately need to go shopping. I am a physician, a professional, a role model, etc. Yet this is what the sole of my shoe looks like:...

I know I am imperfect all the time, but I felt particularly so during my recent two weeks on the wards.  Although I enjoy teaching the team ...

Setting:   tree pollen infested suburb of our nation's capital, springtime Characters: son's friend (unaffected)  son (with puff...

I knew I was crazy on probably the eighth hour into the first leg of the drive. I was perhaps one of the only people in my medical school cl...

I used to think that being perfect was the ideal.  Now I embrace imperfection.  It all started a few years ago, when I got divorced.  I have...

I’m six months into motherhood and I’ve decided to stop worrying. My husband and I waited until well after residency finished to start a fam...

We mothers in medicine may be very different. We've chosen different specialties, have one child or multiple, have stay-at-home husbands...