Posts made in June, 2011

The “best” medical outcomes result from the right intervention, at the right time for the right person. Increasing expectations from patients, third party payers, and hospitals demand from physicians almost super-human expertise, faster response...

The “old boys” network is blamed for keeping us down and keeping us out. Instead of complaining, we must start building a “new girls” network. Women physicians know not of the importance of creating powerful, enduring relationships in the...

Last week I wrote about flexibility in transforming the careers of women physicians. Necessary but not sufficient.  Now, how do we build flexibility into the workplace? Generally evolving workplace trends are also operant for physicians in the...

It’s no secret that women and men are different—they think differently, work differently, produce, and re-produce differently. And it’s no surprise that the once male-dominated healthcare workplace was, and continues, in many ways, to be...