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.

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…