Being a Champion of Change
ESTHER CHOO: I was so honored and excited to be up there on the FIX stage with two men I truly admire and emulate. It was a nice opportunity for me to share my thoughts and experiences about championing change….
ESTHER CHOO: I was so honored and excited to be up there on the FIX stage with two men I truly admire and emulate. It was a nice opportunity for me to share my thoughts and experiences about championing change….
We have invested blood, sweat, tears, many years and enormous financial resources for the privilege of practicing emergency medicine. We work really hard and make heroic efforts to stave off death, even when failure seems all but certain. When it…
Dear parents, Congratulations on your daughter’s acceptance into medical school. Like the first day of kindergarten, this launch is notable for parents as well as children. You may have some concerns about the stresses she will face. Having been there,…
Editor’s Note: Last week Emergency Physicians Monthly published the response of three female emergency physicians to the Emergency Medicine News letter to the editor “Parenthood and Medicine, Each in Its Season.” We felt it was worth sharing here as well. Last…
I’m excited to introduce you to an unstoppable movement that I’ve been a part of throughout my residency tenure: #Shemergency. I am incredibly fortunate at my residency program to be surrounded by an abundance of highly successful and all around…
A father and a son are in a car accident. The father dies instantly, and the son is taken to the nearest hospital. The doctor comes in and exclaims, “I can’t operate on this boy!” “Why not?” the nurse asks….
As a female first-year attending, I am 100% about women’s equality in the workplace, but that’s just not everyone’s reality right now. Over the last year while working at a community hospital in rural CT, I’ve heard many unabashed, gender-biased…
When FemInEM launched in September 2015 we knew we were going to touch on some sensitive topics. Gender equity, medicine, profession roles, parenthood, equal pay – we looked forward to tackling these issues as a community. We thought an easily…