I was 37 weeks pregnant and had just completed a busy Monday in the OR, my last scheduled shift before maternity leave. While relaxing in f...

It was 9:35 pm and I found myself staring longingly at a trash can, salivating at the beautiful sandwich perched precariously on its rim. M...

A lot has been written about mentorship. In medicine, we are often assigned mentors based on our clinical or research interests.  Sometimes...

For years, my older daughter has done dance as her extracurricular. It was easy. Every Saturday afternoon, I would take both kids over to th...

This morning as she read the newspaper report of yet another shooting death. Why does this keep happening, Mom? It's complicated. ...

I don’t have a television but your story flashes across my Facebook feed, my friends tell me about you, my husband the Anthropologist tells...

Anyone who knows me well is aware of how seriously I take new year’s resolutions. I think the origin of this is pretty pathetic: growing up...

Genmedmom here. Anyone who practices medicine knows that sooner or later, we all screw up. Mistakes can be big or small, can result in har...

Has anyone ever gotten this kind of call from daycare/school before?  (I am sure  someone has...) Yesterday I was nearing the end of my c...

I used to think that I was drawn to hospice practice because I wasn't one of those doctors that had to fix everything. I'm comfortab...

This summer, my three kids spent several weeks with my parents in their home in Connecticut.  For the kids, this is an amazing time when t...

1. That tired drinking out of a firehose analogy...unfortunately true. I remember being appalled when I read that med students study multipl...

Hello! I'm Jay. I've been hanging out here and commenting for a long time. I used to blog on Two Women Blogging (don't go lookin...

I am a 31-year-old, hospital-based speech therapist in TX who will apply to medical school in 2016. As a newlywed several years ago, we fo...

Well, I have done it.  After years of considering this, I have made the decision to hire a cleaning lady.  I have always felt perfectly capa...