It started back in May. She dropped her stainless steel sippy, and the bottom rim landed right in the middle of her big toenail. For hours, ...

Genmedmom here.  We all have patients, friends, and family members who fervently believe that they have a diagnosis that we know doesn...

MS2 Terrible Twos here. New to MiM, so here is a quick introduction. I am mom to a sweet nineteen month old boy who is into everything and l...

Dear MiM, This is my first post, so I will introduce myself. Thank you so much to KC and all of you veteran MiMs for this opportunity. I...

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...

A random Saturday earlier this month marked the first time I provided sedation anesthesia for patients in the same IVF clinic where I was a ...

I don’t have a television but your story flashes across my Facebook feed, my friends tell me about you, my husband the Anthropologist tells...

I love Raymond Carver's poem " What the Doctor Said ." The doctor tells the poet he has widespread metastatic lung cancer. The...

For those that don’t know - nonepileptic seizures also known as pseudo-seizures are a phenomenon when a person does not have a real seizure,...

Genmedmom here. This was an odd week. One patient brought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers as a gesture of thanks… and another totally re...

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 ...

I have searched but I cannot find the flying trapeze story I read a few years ago that explains my life, so I’ll paraphrase and add to i...

Genmedmom here. Our department is considering a policy that would require female chaperones to monitor every pelvic exam. This would inclu...

Hello fellow Mothers in Medicine! I am a senior resident in a medical subspecialty, about to graduate next year, and am in need of frank a...

Genmedmom here. Last week, a patient with risk factors for Ebola exposure, and who had medical issues, walked into our office. Kudos to ...

Our 25-year-old nephew passed away last week.  He had been fighting an addiction to prescription opiates for some time, and despite great ef...