This post is in response to our MiM Mail: Residency limit for leave and having children posted in November. The problem of maternity leav...

With our youngest child grown, flown and on her own, my husband and are truly post parents. Others in this phase seem to travel, or acquire...

When I started in medicine, I thought it might make me a better mother, were I lucky enough to marry and have children. And it has, sor...

I’ve been away for a while now, birthing, or perhaps mid-wifing, two books. For me, editing seeps into writing and rewriting for others, to ...

One of my first year students was a former surgical nurse, in her 30s, who had had to defer her dream of going to medical school because she...

Just came back from watching my daughter compete in ballroom dance competition. It struck me as a cross between a swim meet and an evening a...

I just came back from a research conference put on by the Marce society on the topic of perinatal mood disorders. It was great—the science i...

We have a new first year class staring in two weeks. A colleague asked me to suggest something they might read about a physician to provide ...

I hope it is not too late to toot my own horn, and say that of my own posts, I most liked the Laws of Mommodynamics . I really love it that ...

Back from another commencement, where I heard a great speech on neglected tropical diseases and the possible impact that doctors who treat t...

All the years I was growing up, my mother was active in the Parents Auxiliary of the school I attended with my three siblings. When she fina...

  Hi and thanks for the blog, I love reading it when I get a chance to sit at my computer and procrastinate! My question is this- I'm ...

Ode to Warm Socks Stuck in this Blizzard, sleeping on cots The joy of my day—a pair of warm socks. Stuggling through blizzard from offic...

For years now, I have lived by the laws of Mommodynamics: 1. Energy is finite. 2. Clutter, like entropy, tends towards an infinite maximum...

I consider myself a connoisseur holiday letters, which I have sent and received pretty consistently since I first had children. Since my fri...

One of the great advantages of now having self propelling children is that I can go to conferences that rekindle my interest in more general...

Here are few remarks excerpted from a talk I gave about a travelling National Library of Medicine exhibit on women in medicine that is curre...

One of the things that troubles me most as a teacher is watching medical students’ enthusiasm and curiosity deteriorate during medical schoo...

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...

At this point, with my children living between 300 and 6000 miles away, I find myself recapturing concerns that were submerged in the day to...