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My sister, Leah, is 6 and a half years younger than me.  She is my best friend.  She is brilliant.  And hilarious.  And engaging.  She is an author and a teacher.  She is a guru of mindfulness.  And for the past many years she has been losing a battle with her weight....

  Retreat.  This is a word for my sister, someone far more mature in self compassion and peacemaking than me.  This word became part of my story in the last 5 days.  A retreat with strangers.  And my 12 year old daughter.   Wellness.  Work life integration. ...

kevinmd.com published a version of this story on Sept 12, 2018   In November of 2015, Dr. Suneel Dhand and William J. Carbone penned, “Physicians are not providers: An Open Letter to the AMA (American Medical Association) and medical boards.” The authors ended...

I was half way through residency.  Pre 80 hour work week regulations, 2001.  Here is what my schedule looked like:  Monday morning, arrive at hospital to round by 5.  Leave hospital Tuesday evening around 6.  Work out.  Eat a bagel and cream cheese and some carrots...

    I am new to twitter.  I am new to writing about being a woman in medicine, a woman in surgery, and a woman in orthopaedics.  I am NOT new to the feeling so beautifully summed up by Dr. Loren Rabinowitz in the New England Journal of Medicine on June 14,...

  I spent my morning yesterday with women.  Women physicians.  Women physicians in leadership.  Women physicians in leadership and Tammy Hughes from the Heim Group.  If only the first sentence were true, my day would have been unusual for me.  By sentence #4...

  Dear Ms. Hill, Ms. Clare, and any other mothers out there telling the stories of your children's broken bones, I am a Pediatric orthopedic surgeon.  I take care of children who break their bones.  I have a few huge enemies:  Public enemy number one is the...

6%.  That’s how many orthopedic surgeons are women.  6.6%.  or 1/15.  That’s how many orthopedic surgeons in my department are women.  I don’t feel like a unicorn most days.  But some days I do.  Few people in my real day to day life get me…   take into account that I...

  The year was 1998. Surgical internship at Ben Taub Hospital.  This place was the real deal.  Gun detectors soon to be installed.  Security so challenged that we were unfazed by bomb threats.  Rival gangs shooting at each other in the ER.  Prisoner patients...