I did not want to let February end without doing my usual blog post featuring an amazing Black female physician. Thank you 2024 for being a leap year and giving me an extra day! For this year’s post, I wanted to write about Dr. Patricia Bath, a pioneering ophthalmologist and inventor. Dr. Patricia Bath (1942–2019) …
I love to work out. I don’t always like it while it is happening but I love how I feel when I am done. It is upsetting to me if I don’t feel like the work out was hard enough. I know I had a good one if I felt like I was almost going …
For this week’s blog post, I have the pleasure of sharing with you some of the work that Dr. Saloni Sharma is doing in order to help shift the management of pain from pills to natural alternatives. She is local to me and I already follow her on Instagram and Facebook and can’t wait to …
Next Sunday is Mother’s Day, so of course I had to write something about being mom. I wasn’t sure what to focus on at first but after a deep dive through the Internet, I realized that mom guilt is still one of the top things that affects mothers everywhere. Whether you are a working mom, …
If you didn’t know, this week is National Doctors Day, a holiday celebrated yearly on March 30. I was not aware of this date for some time and even thought it was a new addition to the calendar. It turns out it has been around since 1933 when a physician’s wife in Georgia (Eudora Brown …
I have been featuring important Black women physicians on my blog for the last few years to honor Black History Month and 2023 is no different! I am taking the opportunity every year to learn about someone I didn’t know about and this year I came upon Dr. Renee Rosalind Jenkins during my research. She …
Last week was National Women Physicians Day and I wanted to take the time to share a Tedx talk by physician, best selling author, and leadership coach (amongst other things), Dr. Tammie Chang. I first became acquainted with Dr. Chang after being invited to join the Facebook group she co-founded, Pink Coat, MD. I was …
I recently listed to a series called Shame in Medicine that was published in the podcast The Nocturnists. If you work in medicine (whether a doctor or another type of provider), it is definitely work checking it out. It really got me thinking about how we are taught from the undergraduate pre-med courses to the …
November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month (NEAM) and every year, I try to shine a spotlight on different topics related to seizures and epilepsy. You may have read in my previous blog post or elsewhere that 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime, so it is more common than you might think! …
People ask me all the time, “how do you do it all?” The truth is I don’t. Some weeks, I am the best mom and don’t focus on work. Other weeks, I barely see my children. I have talked about mom guilt in the past but this blog post is about the next step. Once …