My Secret Identity
“What should I call you?” It seems like a simple question, no? After all, I was a 36 year old woman when this question was asked by my daughter’s pre-school teacher. I should know my own name. I am about…
LIVE focuses on work-life balance and wellness for FemInEMs. We will address issues related to family, friends and all the myriad other things we balance as women physicians.
“What should I call you?” It seems like a simple question, no? After all, I was a 36 year old woman when this question was asked by my daughter’s pre-school teacher. I should know my own name. I am about…
Dr. Iyer is a psychiatrist working in a psychiatric emergency department. She offers these words of advice to FemInEMs, our patients, and others who may be struggling this season. Feeling low now that the warm months have ended? Dreading the…
I’m not a doctor. I don’t even play one on TV. Yet, after 7 years of serving frazzled, Type-A women, there is one human condition I’m supremely qualified to diagnose: Overitis. Overitis is a virulent condition resulting in both…
I belong to a now semi-famous physician mothers group on a social media site. Overall, it has served as a definite source of support and empowerment to me and others, as well as a veritable spring of information on various…
Homeschoolers are often portrayed as awkward social outcasts, products of a homeschooling community that is bizarre if not positively cultish (see: the opening scene from Mean Girls). So why do the parents of over two million children in the United…
When I had my first baby, I was a busy resident trying to complete my residency on time. I didn’t want to extend my residency even if it meant sacrificing time with my newborn. In order to get my 8 week leave,…
Compared to child rearing, treating patients in the emergency department is simple. When our daughter Florence was born, we were shocked that a tiny, seven-pound beauty could turn our household (and our entire lives) upside down. Why was it…
I was afraid. Really, I was more anxious. This wasn’t any of the typical new mother fears I had been warned about. If fact, I didn’t even see this one coming. I knew that it would be tough going back…