Pumping in the Time of COVID
Sarah Iosifescu, MD I am an ER doctor in NYC that has chosen to keep pumping through COVID. I will preface this by saying breastfeeding/pumping is such a personal choice, this is what I have decided to do and hope it can be helpful…
WORK focuses on how we do our jobs as FemInEMs. We will discuss gender dynamics in the emergency department, communication challenges and effective strategies to be successful in workplace.
COVID-19 – Our Wildest Ride Yet
Jeannette Wolfe, MD 
Barbara Annis Have you ever sat in the passenger seat of a car and pressed down on an imaginary brake because you were increasingly uncomfortable by the driver’s speed and their brazen flirtation with disaster? In the past week, life as we…
Staying Well in the Face of COVID
Melissa Parsons, MD Today we find ourselves on the frontlines facing a pandemic, facing COVID. Our healthcare system is stretched. We are finding our own health and the health of our families may be in jeopardy. We may be faced with decisions we…
My Change of Heart
Alin Gragossian, DO, MPH Dr. Alin Gragossian is currently finishing up her final year of Emergency Medicine residency at UPMC Pinnacle in Harrisburg, PA. She will soon be starting a Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Mt. Sinai in New York City. In 2019, she underwent…
Achieving Language Justice in the Emergency Room
Breena Taira, MD, MPH, CPH, FACEP Dr. Breena R. Taira is an associate professor of clinical emergency medicine at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine and the director of research for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Olive View- UCLA Medical Center and she is…
The Beauty of Experience
Anita Rohra, MD Ageism, bias against an individual due to their age, disproportionately affects women. Although it goes both ways – ageism occurs against both the young and the old – it tends to occur more towards older adults. As women we set…
My Unexpected Use of Postpartum: How my Postpartum Depression Made Me a Better Doctor
Nicole Battaglioli, MD A week after I delivered my first baby, I discovered that my baby blues were morphing into something more. I had postpartum depression and anxiety–something I knew very little about, despite being a physician. Postpartum depression is common and it…
You Need a Walk-Up Song!
Joelle C. Borhart, MD Music is a part of my earliest memories. Growing up, my mom would play the same two cassette tapes as she drove my brothers, sister, and me to and from activities: Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Volume I and Volume II,…