Residency is tough.  I read posts from those of you still in the trenches and I can remember how overwhelmed I felt.  The schedule doesn’...

Recently, I have been having a me-time problem. The problem is, I don't have any. Now, there are pressing and non-modifiable external re...

In high school, I decided that I wanted to be an ob-gyn.  I felt it was my calling, and I bought books to learn as much as I could about the...

Hello Supermomdocs, I stumbled across your blog when I was trying to decide if I made the wrong choice in choosing an internal medicine po...

I've been on vacation this past week.  Since I had nothing pre-planned I decided to make it a stay-cation.  It was much needed, as all v...

G is a beloved Pediatric Pharmacist in our hospital. She is thorough yet collegial, encyclopedic yet approachable. Tonight during a crisis...

A while ago, back before we decided to be honest with ourselves and cancel even our bare-minimum cable package, I saw a Honda commercial ext...

I don’t know when it began, but somewhere in between finishing first year of residency and starting in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (ug...

I recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.  My entire pregnancy was so incredible -- I loved every minute of it!  I never thought for o...

I think I had already decided to keep my name even before my boyfriend-at-the-time told me his (rather long) surname was old German for ...

Hi, I've been reading MIM since my M1 year, and I'm finally an M4 applying for residency!  Come interview time, I'll have an a...

Apparently, most moms who want to exclusively breastfeed their babies for three months fail . There are all sorts of hypotheses for why wo...

In his NYT bestseller  'The Element' , Ken Robinson argues that we are in our element - doing what we should be doing - when we do...

As a woman in surgery, gender issues come up frequently.  It’s something that really weighs on my mind, and I want to take this opportunity ...

I am in the throes of my first Pediatric Intensive Care Unit rotation. I was shocked that by Day 2 I wanted to run away and hide under my co...