I've been back to residency after my time in the lab for a full three months now.  This transition has been quite a roller coaster.  Her...

We've seen posts on this before... But I struggle every time I'm ill. This week, it's not so much my own illness that's been...

I was just thinking the other day about whether there can or should be a mommy track in medical training. There are other fields where you...

I never thought I would meet someone who is jealous of a med student. Not the kind of "Oh, I wish I got in to X school" type of j...

I felt very young when I had my first child. There were times when I felt like a knocked up teenager. Mostly because most of my friends an...

* I apologize in advance for the number of times I use the word “hate” in this post, but it’s gone beyond dreading into the realm of hatin...

It seems like there are a lot of "oops babies" out there. I know a bunch of other people who said they only wanted one or two ki...

Oh yes, I did. This is not a level of intimacy with which I am that comfortable, but when it became apparent within minutes of starting o...

Just got to thinking, is there a fathers in medicine group blog?   Fathers in medicine who are reflecting on their careers, their ch...

Upon returning home most days, I am an exhausted Intern. I have an hour long commute from the community hospital that I work at and by the...

Hi MiM community, I discovered this blog fairly recently and I think it is really wonderful that this community exists. However, I haven...

I've had two babies and zero baby showers. What does it matter in the scheme of things? It doesn't. But it's still something t...

For my entire life I knew I always wanted to be a doctor, that was never a question.  At the age of 5, I declared I wanted to be a pediatri...

It’s been a while since he died.     And yet…    He is with me daily as I see him in my children, in my own interactions (when I’m...

I just finished the just profoundly awesome article Why Women Still Can't Have It All by Anne-Marie Slaughter, in this month's Atla...