I’m inspired. I just read a sweet post over on the Mothers in Medicine blog that made me smile. It’s written by a pathologist, titled Stop and Smell The Roses Baby . She describes how she looked forward to her infant’s naptime as the only …
Just last week, friends of ours had a frightening experience: They were on vacation, and ordered takeout from an unfamiliar restaurant. They specifically asked about peanuts: Are the egg rolls fried in peanut oil? Our daughter has an allergy. The server replied: No, no peanut …
Today was August hot but September breezy, and since it was my one weekday with the kids, and school starts next week, and Hubby’s on the road, I was determined to get outside. But they wanted to play Legos in the living room. My enthusiastic …
“We’ve won the lottery of life,” I declared. It was a typical workday evening. Hubby and I were sitting eating leftovers reinvented into a beautiful southwestern salad: roasted veggies, corn, avocados, cheddar. The kids had finished their dinners- a pile of sliced honey ham for …
The firstyear medical students are here! Today was the first day of the Interviewing and Communications Skills course that I co-teach. Last year, I wrote about how amazing this course is: Amazing that it exists (I never had a course like this) and amazing how …
Hot Heels, Cool Kicks and a Scalpel posted an inspiring opinion of what it means to be a better mother. “Better” being different for everyone, and yet following the same definition. Nicely done and highly recommended reading.
It took a physician and an engineer two hours, twenty tries, and one lost kite before we succeeded. It was a prime beach day here in Kennebunkport, Maine. Goose Rocks Beach at low tide, a vast expanse of sparsely populated hard- pack sand, sunny and …
Until this week, it had been a long time since I’d seen a case of the mumps. The last was in Central America over a decade ago. And until this week, I had never personally diagnosed a case. I can’t go into clinical specifics, other …