Dr. Joelle Borhart received her medical degree from University of Iowa. She then completed her emergency medicine residency training at Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, where she worked as an Assistant Program Director, and is now Associate Program Director. She is a former AAEM Open Mic winner, has been featured on EM:RAP, and has been named Speaker of the Year three times by the Georgetown residents.
Joelle C. Borhart, MD The Reveal
My son is 16 months old, and I’ve never told his pediatrician I’m a doctor. More than a decade after becoming an M.D., I still struggle with the “reveal” of my identity as a physician when a family member or…