My daughter, Eliza, is five years old. She loves purple AND pink, riding horses, and, of course, unicorns. She is the oldest of my three, by one minute over her twin brother, and she was born with spina bifida. She…
Emergency Physicians can change the world. This is my fundamental belief. We see on a daily basis what most could never fathom. While dramas on TV or in the movies show the frenetic pace and barrage of acute presentation, what…
“It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay.” I tell myself this mantra so many times a day I’m thinking of making it my next tattoo. It’s okay leave a party early because a novel and bed sound better than mingling. It’s…
As an emergency medicine physician I have seen and treated too many victims of sexual and physical abuse. I have had to bear witness to the loss of innocence more than I feel comfortable with. I would estimate I…
Implicit bias in medicine hinders women’s success, punishes them for having characteristics that are rewarded in men, and lauds men for being barely halfway decent human beings. All. The. Damn. Time. It’s pervasive and if you don’t think it’s that…
At the start of medical school, I received the diagnosis of a debilitating autoimmune illness. From there, I would eventually be taught most of my medical education, while being a patient in the hospital. I learned how to place difficult…
The first time that suicide was a reality in my life was when I was 22. I was having drinks with friends when my mother called. The father of one of my childhood friends had hanged himself in the front…
Dr. Kathleen Myers is a physician entrepreneur dedicated to rehumanizing the healthcare experience. Her goal in founding the medical scribe company Essia Health (formerly Scribes STAT) in 2011 was to help physicians not only survive the transition to electronic medical…
Dr. Jennifer Marin
Thomas Jefferson Point-of-Care Ultrasound Educator of the Month Series - October 2018
By FemInEMs, for FemInEMs
Tamara Green, MD MPH 
Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H 
Wendy Woolley, DO 
Cori Poffenberger, MD, FACEP 
Priya E. Mammen, MD, MPH 
Nathalie Coeller, MD 
Meeta Shah, MD 
Nick Gorton, MD 
Teresa Y. Smith, MD, MSEd, FACEP 
Devjani Das, MD 
Jenny Beck-Esmay, MD 
