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As a mother and a doctor, I know you are sometimes worried and afraid, overwhelmed and overstretched. But your families depend on you to be their foundation. You're imperfect. And that's okay.
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Vulnerability

“if I were to view life as dr. trinity santos”

[Spoiler Alert for Season One of the Pitt ahead] There are so many interesting characters on the Pitt. One that stood out to me was Dr. Trinity Santos. Did I like Trinity? Um, not really, but that would be fine by Trinity haha! Did I train with people like Trinity? Absolutely! Trinity gives out nicknames […]

Coaching Tools

“how to start a side gig”

I remember an interesting piece of advice someone once gave me when I was considering whether to train through the FRCP or CCFP route for emergency medicine. And that advice was to “consider which route would help me build something AFTER I started to wind down my emergency medicine practice.” I don’t know why that […]

how to stop mom guilt

Mindset

“how to stop mom guilt”

NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE can have it all. If you have a challenging career and are raising young kids, it’s a guarantee that you will have to cut something out of your 168 hours a week and make compromises. You only have to be okay with your choices at any given stage […]

Medical Life

Mindset

“why meaningful activities are essential for busy mothers”

Psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Brown said that the opposite of play is depression. I firmly believe that doctors experience burnout because they have forgotten how to play. But if anyone deserves to have more fun, it’s people who keep caring for others each day they step into work. Think back for a minute: when did life […]

Mindset

“how to feel less guilty about going part-time”

If your burnout and sense of overload is related to occupational stress, then you probably have considered reducing your workload to part-time hours. For this post, I’m going to assume that you’ve identified work as being the root cause of your burnout and overload. This is a very common cause, but it is nuanced. Perhaps […]

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