A little snippet of a recent email At work, I go by Dawn Baker MD, MS. But at home, I’m sometimes known as Kristie Reynolds. I don’...

I was at our block education the other day when one of my male co residents asked me, “Did you read the JAMA reflection piece from Sept 11?”...

Genmedmom here. I am officially closer to 50 than 40, and it shows. If I didn't hear it all the time from my patients, I would be co...

How to succeed with pumping as a resident: I am an intern in a busy internal medicine program. I try to pump several times a day. At first...

I had a job interview last week, in an odd surprising way, with the medical director of a local system of FQHC medical clinics in our town. ...

There is a patient that has been on my mind this year. I was fired as her doctor. I have had two patients fire me. The first was a s...

After recovering from the the good kind of pain  at the end of November last year, I developed the plain-old kind of pain that is in no way ...

Taken by the author. Mukwonago, WI. Oct 2016. One of the most heart-wrenching things I witness at work is people saying goodbye to their...

5 months into being the mother of 2 little boys and I barely have time to breathe sometimes. I work as a Pediatrician but I had completely ...

This isn’t the most elegant post, but I thought that I’d share some of my before and after thoughts about starting residency aga...

Sometimes I think the most definitive memories I will have from this time period will come from my couch. This is not my couch’s first lif...

Random ponderings on turning forty........ There is genuine sadness and mourning when a favorite piece of makeup is discontinued.......i...

Since I'm a resident and my husband works full time, our kids are in full time camp this summer. Which has worked great. The availabili...

Hello MIM! LlamaMama here. I'm an MS4 going into Pediatrics, wife of my college sweetheart, and proud mama of an energetic 1-year-o...

Hi! So excited to join this sisterhood. I am a pediatric hospitalist at a mid-sized children’s hospital. I am blessed with 3 amazing child...