It was approaching 3:30 pm in the afternoon as I sat finishing up progress notes for the day. As I looked at my watch, I felt the feeling of dread start to creep in. At any moment I w...
By Jackelyn Moya My first memory of being in a space where I was treated in a “traditional” manner was during my senior year in high school. My counselor was creating my schedule for my fin...
By Joy Alvarado It’s not on everyone’s mind as they contemplate going into a surgical residency, but it was on my mind: Could I handle the physical challenges of this new diagnosis under the ergo...
By Daisy Cruz As a Latina in medicine, I am acutely aware of how many of the spaces I am occupying on a day-to-day basis have not been created for women who look like myself. I find ways to make m...
By Anu Kathiresan As women in medicine, we are always focused on the next goal we need to achieve to advance our career. Though undergraduate education, medical school, residency, and fellowship, ...
By Nickey Jafari Perhaps you have already heard of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). I see highway billboards for them on most of my long drives throughout the rural midwest. I recently receive...
By Anne Fabrizio Buttocks. Butt. Bum. Booty. Badonkadonk. That’s just a few ways we refer to our bottoms. We speak freely about our rear ends when it comes to dancing or working out....
By Hilary Sanfey MB. BCh. MHPE, FACS, FRCSEd (hon) Bullying is a persistent pattern of mistreatment that includes verbal, nonverbal, psychological, or physical abuse and humiliation. The behavior i...
By Stephanie Bonne Nearly 2 years ago, the women’s surgical community was shocked by the loss of one of our own. Dr. Sherilyn Gordon-Burroughs, a gifted transplant surgeon, accomplished researche...
By Stephanie Bonne On a busy day in the ICU, I was back and forth between meetings, notes and patients, when my phone buzzed a couple times with twitter notifications. Something seemed to be up. I st...
