Q: Dr. Fizzy, would you like to get the H1N1 vaccine? A: Yes, I very much would. I would also like to live in a giant house and go to a spa...

Halloween is fast approaching - what are you going to do with the mountains of candy that the kids bring home? (I guess that if you're ...

A few weeks ago, at the end of a very trying day with the kids, I saw the Mark Twain quotation, "I can live for two months on a good co...

The other day a fellow MIM who doesn't actually blog here (as far as I know) recounted a story to me about her child's bedtime routi...

You may or may not know that November is National Novel Writing Month , also known as NaNoWriMo. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000...

I had the recent opportunity to listen to physician-writer and fellow mother in medicine, Pauline Chen , speak at a university function. I h...

Will you vaccinate yourself and/or your children against H1N1?

From the moment my first visitor came to see me in the hospital, as I was holding my brand spankin’ new baby boy, they all began to echo the...

When someone makes a comment about rich doctors, I want to punch them. The median med school tuition for last year according to AAMC is a...

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...

It really does take a village to get anything done. I have a village all coordinated and well planned out to get done what I and my family...

A study just released by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found that teenagers who have infrequen...

We took Melly to the pediatrician to get her flu shot today. I am absolutely insane when it comes to flu shots. As soon as September comes...

Topic days are days on MiM devoted to a single topic, featuring posts from many of our regular contributors as well as guest submissions. To...

I always remember Topic Day at 11pm on...Topic Day, so here I am, dead last. Wow, I could write thousands of pages on this one, but since...