When do you find time to be yourself?   The self you are outside of medicine and parenthood? (Maybe the glimpse of a self you were before m...

My little family had a tough week last week. In addition to the usual chaos of single-working-mom-with-two-kids life, which includes (but i...

I have been tired since May 2015. I am so, so tired. But the sleep deprivation proved to be worth it today. You see, today was Match Day. T...

Screens! There are so many. And they are everywhere. Even AAP relaxed their screen time recommendations in recognition of the ubiquity o...

One of the things I really enjoy about being an anesthesiologist is the wide variety of patients that I see. You never know who you're g...

Genmedmom here. I've posted about my own recent miserable illnesses on my own site so often lately, I'm afraid to post anything el...

"We have a problem," my daughter's kindergarten teacher recently told me during a parent teacher conference. "What...

I wondered during undergrad if I could do medicine and "have a life". I didn't have a lot of first-hand contact with physicia...

I'm a resident and a mom, with two kids in elementary school. As my kids have gotten older it has gotten a lot easier to "balance...

(Warning: serious serious whining and verbal diarrhea ahead, but I will blame it on not getting more than 5 hours of continuous sleep more ...

I have a good friend named Mary.* We met at 15 (she was 14), volunteering at a camp for severely handicapped children. The weekends were cal...

I've been trying to dig deep and reflect on my own work-life balance... I feel like I'm living in a world in which my mantra to my l...

I'm going to come out and say it: It stinks making plans with other mothers of young kids. They are never free.  It's either dat...

Do you have difficulties falling asleep or staying asleep? – No. I can fall asleep anywhere at any time. While I’m waiting for the garage do...

Let it Go has been stuck in my head, oh, maybe 3 out of 7 days of the week. On a good week. For at least a year. More? (This has to be caus...