Mom guilt: it’s the darkest of black clouds that threatens to dim the brilliance of a woman’s academic career. It starts early; from second guessing decisions about pregnancy, childbirth and going back to work. The guilt has no set minimum;…
Dr. Joneigh S. Khaldun is a practicing emergency medicine physician at Henry Ford Hospital and the Chief Medical Executive and Chief Deputy for Health in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). In those roles, she advises Michigan Governor…
I have a confession to make. I don’t have children. You read that right. I’m a woman, of childbearing age, who doesn’t have children, and I have no plans to. You might read this and think, “Hey, that’s fine, this…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Emergency medicine is tough. The world expects perfection, and we know perfection isn’t possible. Complicated patients and a dysfunctional health care system make matters worse. The sad outcome is that too many physicians are unhappy, burned out, and the rate…
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Joneigh Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP 
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