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Knowing How To Get (the not-so-little) Things Done Is Really Important By Jane Doe, MD This is the second in a series of posts about returning to training at mid-life.  I am two days into a yearlong fellowship and feeling, of course,...

Women Surgeons Paving the Way for Women Surgeons San Francisco, June 7-9, 2013 What started as an informal “let’s sit and chat in my home” invitation, issued by Sharona Ross, MD, more than 5 years ago, has grown into a mega-event...

Jane Doe, MD Talks About Her Real Life Gap Year, Real Time Many of us have periods of yearning–“If only I could…..”  But for most of us, these stay as day dreams.  But not for Jane Doe, MD.  JDMD is real life women...

Albuquerque, NM.  May, 2013. Imagine being raped by your senior resident.  What would you do? Do you report it to your supervisors?  Go to the police?  Go to a rape crisis center?  Or would you try to carry on the next day because you are the...

CNN News Piece Does a Great Disservice To Women Physicians Exceptionalism is not as inspiring as it once was.  Talking about women who have scaled higher and a greater number of mountains than the usual woman physician does not help us face our own...

WSJ 3.3.13 “Suicides Soar in Past Decade” More people are dying because they commit suicide than in motor vehicle accidents this year.  The number of suicides is rapidly approaching the number of deaths from breast cancer.  The trend...