Anand Swaminathan, MD, MPH Saying No at Work to Say Yes at Home
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…
Arlene Chung, MD, MACM Why We Shouldn’t Teach Doctors to be Well
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…
Carolyn McClanahan, MD Creating A Fantastic Workplace Culture
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…
Jenny Beck-Esmay, MD Rethinking Family Leave Policies
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH is the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. He is also Director of the Harvard Humanitarian…
Sponsored: My Hack for Getting (and Staying) Organized: One Step and Forget
By Heather Hammerstedt, MD, MPH The following content is adapted from a presentation at Vituity Women in Medicine’s leadership development conference in March 2017. There are so many productivity apps out there, and devices running those apps, that it can…
Sponsored: Three Expecting Mothers Share What a Strong Parental Leave Benefit Means to Them
Dr. Stefanie Gilbert has a long list of reasons why US Acute Care Solution’s parental leave policy is a crucial benefit for mothers, newborns, and their families as a whole. The 12 weeks of paid time off with flexible scheduling…
Sponsored: Pregnancy and Practice
By Vanessa Calderon, MD Raise your hand if you are a working mom in medicine. Keep it raised if you recall the stress and anxiety that came with planning your family leave and discussing options with your Medical Director and…
Annahieta Kalantari, DO Beating Burnout
I can guarantee that you would immediately recognize a STEMI patient and activated your cath lab and that you would quickly recognize and treat the classic signs of appendicitis in a patient. Would you be able to recognize the signs…