Health Hacks: Do Less, Thrive More
Darria Gillespie, MD How Life in the ER Led Me to Develop “Hacks” for Life Moms: how many times have you heard, “you won’t be doing that when the baby comes”? Or worse: “say goodbye to sleep when the little one gets…
Come and Stand Under My Umbrella: Helping “Problem” Docs Find Room to Breathe.
Stefanie Simmons, MD, FACEP Who will care for us? Physicians are sensitive, intelligent, dedicated servants of humanity who bear witness to immense human suffering and do their best to mitigate this suffering. They sacrifice a decade of their lives to study the skill and…
The Silent Struggle of Female Physicians
Melissa Parsons, MD My fertility journey is not typical. I have not spent years “trying”. In fact, I have spent years trying NOT to get pregnant! My husband has two daughters – AND a vasectomy. So getting pregnant was a known challenge. Luckily,…
Trailblaze
Jennifer Beck-Esmay, MD Dr. Aisha Liferidge serves at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department Emergency Medicine and of Health Policy at the Milken Institute School of Public Health. She prioritizes…
Saying No at Work to Say Yes at Home
Anand Swaminathan, MD, MPH I was inspired by FIX 2017. This isn’t a unique situation to me but one that’s important for me to state because it was unexpected. I figured I would go and listen and hear a lot of things I already…
Building Safety Nets and Baking Cupcakes
Jennifer Walthall, MD, MPH What if? A few months ago some of the Division of Aging team took a road trip with me to Ft. Wayne, Indiana to see firsthand the cool stuff we have been hearing about a community based organization called Aging…
Why We Shouldn’t Teach Doctors to be Well
Arlene Chung, MD, MACM My nightmare is waking up to a phone call in the middle of the night with a frantic chief resident on the other end of the line telling me that one of our residents is dead. I am a lifelong…
Gender Based Violence as a Global Pandemic
Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH is Director of Internal Programs for STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and core faculty at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative where she co-leads a program on education in conflict. According to World…