It's been awhile since my last post so a quick update before I go into this topic. I am currently 11 weeks away from finishing my radiol...

The teacher at my younger daughter's preschool says that they're going to start a unit on different careers, and she asked me if I c...

A random Saturday earlier this month marked the first time I provided sedation anesthesia for patients in the same IVF clinic where I was a ...

Match Day has come and gone, and I have to admit that life looks so much brighter on the other side of that big white envelope. The months l...

What do you do to celebrate yourself? How do you toot your own horn? I am a part of several very lively on-line support groups for mother...

I've been reading The Grumpy Rumblings of the (Formerly) Untenured blog lately. Their personal finance posts make me kind of uncomfortab...

Hi fellow mothers in medicine, I'm currently a resident and pregnant with baby #2. I must say that the attitudes I have encountered thr...

A keeps telling me what to do. She's so mean. It's like she's my mother. Hey. I'm not mean. True. It's like she'...

Our little man will hopefully make his appearance (hopefully in a much shorter and less painful way!) in the next few weeks… I hit 37 weeks...

Genmedmom here. There have been many times when I have struggled to empathize with the patient. There are certain healthcare issues, and c...

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

The greats we learn about.  Often men.  Many of us have heard and read the stories of the "Fathers" of modern medicine. But let...

I have lost 35 pounds. 5 pounds at time. Over the last 3 years. Unfortunately, I have also gained 35 pounds over that same time frame. 3 yea...

One of my mother's cousins died yesterday. I hadn't seen in her a long time - there's a fair amount of distance in my family, ...

This year both my children have their own Valentines to congratulate. I was eating breakfast at  a hotel when one lady approached and asked ...