Posts made in December, 2012

Once upon a time I was a visiting fourth year medical student doing a surgical sub-internship at NYU Medical Center.  On day 1 I met my future husband, then a second year surgery resident on his way to urology at Columbia.  But that day was not...

Are You Offended When You Are Called a “Woman Physician?” Two readers have alerted me to how offensive the qualifier “woman” might be in front of a variety of other descriptors for “professional women” such as...

I was going to talk about career success as a top New Year’s resolution.  But then it struck me–success is not success if you’re not happy. What makes women physicians happy?  When we can express our feelings of altruism,...

A war is brewing in the House of Medicine.  It’s a war of philosophy based on how we physicians approach our patients–the people who come to us to be cared for and to be cared about.  These people who come as patients to the physician...