By Anna Garcia Whitlock, MD Banting - Metabolism, Huggins - Oncology, Murray - Immunology. These are three of the nine surgeons who’ve won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. To me, it see...
By Danielle Hashmi When I was applying for medical school and residency, I was certain that I would never have children during my training. Despite this original conviction, by the time that I was ge...
By Lillian Erdahl Today I achieved what has been a challenging goal for me, zero tasks in my electronic health record (EHR) inbox. It is unlikely to last for very long, but it feels good to accomplis...
Deciding on a career in surgery was very difficult for me. I went into medical school believing I would become a family medicine physician or a pediatrician. I wanted that patient-physician relatio...
By Jaime D. Lewis Many of us can come up with a list of ways that we and our colleagues have been reminded that we do not fit the expectations of a surgeon. For women in medicine these incidents o...
By Shan Lansing Queen Bee Syndrome is a social theory that describes how women in leadership roles sometimes expect more from female trainees than their male counterparts. I have heard this phenomeno...
By Geeta Lal Almost 3 years ago, I woke up with a familiar throbbing pain in my left jaw and face. My first brush with it was four years prior, while caregiving for my mother with cancer. “Stress ...
By Cheryl K. Zogg As the holiday season is upon us and the current year draws to a close, I want to take a moment to reflect on one of the recently-recognized though long-enshrined “traditionsâ...
By Feibi Zheng When I had my first child three years ago, one of my co-residents added me on Facebook to Physician Mom’s Group (PMG) and a dear friend that I met through the Resident and Associate ...
By Valeria S.M. Valbuena In 1989, American Civil Rights Lawyer Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw published her now essential critical race theory piece entitled “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race...
