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…
Thinking Through The Mommy Effect
Jaime Hope, MD There I was, nervous but excited, smartly dressed and proudly wearing my short white coat, the uniform of a medical student. I arrived for my rotation early that day, ever eager to be responsible and make a good impression. Two…
Lighting My Corner in the World – Part 2
Emily Rose, MD FAAP FAAEM FACEP Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two part series. When it comes to living in a home where daddy is the “mommy” I am admittedly often very conflicted about my girls’ “comfort zone” being daddy. On one hand,…
Lighting My Corner in the World – Part 1
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two part series. My husband and I often joke that we have “reverse” gender roles. I work full-time as an academic emergency physician and he is “Mr. Mom” to our three little…
The Reveal
Joelle C. Borhart, MD 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…
The Pregnant Emergentologist
Arian Nachat, MD As a later in life mother of 2 young children, the experiences of physicians bearing children is of great personal significance to me. More specifically, over the past few years I have been wondering about the data on women physicians…
Celiac – The Invisible Threshold
Kimberly Greene-Liebowitz MD “Do you think she’ll have it?” My husband and I lay in bed the night before Kol Nidre, cocooned by darkness. In the adjacent room, my son muttered as he dreamed. Further away, my daughter slept silently. During the Days…
Homeschooler, MD
The Parents Shenvi 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…