Career advice wanted I’m having a mid-residency crisis. I’m halfway into my three year family medicine residency, which means in a year an...

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...

It was normal Wednesday and I was staring absentmindedly at the surgery white board. I searched its unending list of procedures and "ec...

Genmedmom here, venting. It's just been one of those weeks. There was no one particular event. We're fine, we're (mostly) heal...

I spend 1/4 of my life on call. With 10 years of private practice in OB/GYN under my belt that's 2.5 years that I've been tied to my...

40 minutes into my commute to work, I had a pseudo-melt down. As I sang “Happy Birthday” over the phone to my three-year-old, I lost it. I r...

After my six-week maternity leave was over, I showed up to work after having been up all night because my Doll must have felt the change com...

5 admissions, 4 discharges, PICU transfer. That sums up my night. I could dwell on the negatives (exhaustion, cold under-heated hallways w...

It's my first overnight call in the hospital. It's 7pm and I've been at work for 13 hours. There are 16 more hours to go. My arm...

I had planned to write about my first post baby overnight call which occurred a couple of weeks ago. Long story short, I survived, hubby s...

I was on call for 7 days starting last Friday. My mother watched Babyboy all day until I got home from work close to 7 pm. My husband was ...

As a resident running the family practice ward, I would come up to the unit in the evening to finish dictations and complete paperwork. At t...