It’s easy to make life into a checklist.  Degree Furry Baby and/or Biological Offspring Stable job Loving relationship(s) Home The line items are tangible and feel concrete and attainable. But what happens after you...

I remember getting report cards in school and feeling so, so proud every time I got an A. I kept craving those high-achieving marks throughout my whole education.  From kindergarten to college, that’s who...

It’s not one time events that change us, it’s our habits.  If you go to the gym one time or take prescribed medication once or take one class, will that change you? Only in...

My family and I usually go on a trip this time of year. I’ll take anywhere from 7-10 days off work and we head down to the beach to eat ice cream cones, build...

Last month, Divya Chhabra wrote an article for Huffpost calling out the mistreatment of medical residents during Covid-19 and beyond.  I read the whole piece nodding my head and thinking (sometimes out loud), “Yep,...

As physicians, when we continually work and give of ourselves from a place of obligation and burnout,  we will never be our best. We may even actually be our worst. That’s not fair to...

I’m a STEM gal through and through, give me facts and figures. But let’s get real…actual clinical practice isn’t straightforward like the multiple choice questions we cut our teeth on during medical school. Same...

Things are opening up again.  I’m not taking out my confetti just yet – at this point, we’re peaking out of the bomb shelter without knowing if the surge is really over.  But it...

If all you’ve been posting during the quarantine are “it’s wine-o-clock somewhere” memes, I’m gonna ask you a question: Are you enjoying yourself?  That may be a hard question to sit with and it’s...

Recently meeting with a group of first year residents, we got on the topic of “how do we just sit with all the uncertainty right now?” We met in the new normal – instead...