By Mara Antonoff, MD As the world continues to grapple with the ongoing challenges of a global pandemic, the day-to-day work life for us as surgeons continues to evolve. While some profes...
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My saggy ovaries: A surgical trainee’s experience with egg freezing
By Tiffany Sinclair, MD My saggy ovaries – that is what I’ve been calling them since I found out that I have “diminished ovarian reserve,” a term used to describe decreased reproductive poten...
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Highs and Lows of Surgery: Juice Boxes on my Surgery Rotation
By Hannah Case The first two years of medical school, I found myself fighting with an inexorable desire to be in the operating room. Surgery seemed alluring; addictive almost, yet I fought its appeal...
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A Future Female Surgeon and Daughter of Immigrants
How a future first-generation surgeon carries her parents’ strength and courage By Scarlett Tohme I am a native New Yorker, in one of the truest senses of the label—I am a daughter of immigrants....
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The Significance of Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris
By Vaidehi Mujumdar, MD, and Victoria Adewale, MD, MS Vaidehi: Kamala was my paternal grandmother’s name. I never had the opportunity to meet her. The only picture I have ever seen of her is an oil...
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A Day in the Life of Dr. Carter Lebares: Cultivating Resilience through Mindfulness and Cognitive Training in Surgery
By Lena Trager and Dr. Carter Lebares January’s AWS Tweetchat is focused around creating an inclusive discussion about health, wellbeing, and work-life balance in surgical training and ...
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Inclusive Mentoring
By Christy Chai, MD, FACS and Susan Tsai, MD, MHS, FACS This blog entry is the first in a series of six blogs authored by members of the Clinical Practice Committee writing in collaboration with our ...
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Code Blue
By Rachel Salinas The first code blue that I ever witnessed was called on my grandfather during my third year of medical school. He had been in the ICU for seven weeks after there were unexpected com...
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But what about Christmas?
by Kathleen Romanowski, MD, MAS, FACS I did not go into medical school planning to be a surgeon. I thought that I was going to be a pediatrician, maybe doing pediatric critical care. That all cha...
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International Medical Graduates in Surgery: Unknown is Not Bad
By Apoorve Nayyar, MD International medical graduates (IMGs) form a diverse cohort of the US physician workforce. Historically, IMGs have played a pivotal role in meeting the needs of an ever expandi...