DoctorMama

You might be surprised to learn that medical professionals are some of the most needle-phobic people around. You should hear the whining in ...

I'm sick (again) and in the middle of a shitstorm at work (again) and my precious assistant just went out on maternity leave (not again,...

Turns out I’m not the only quack out there who says that you can/should keep running even if it hurts ! (Thanks to Elizabeth for noticing th...

Is the light therapy working? I do feel less gloomy and more energetic than I did before. And when I think about how long it will be until...

I was thumbing through the most recent issue of Glamour (a magazine I usually find sneakily feminist) and I saw a little filler article that...

It is not enough to bring your toothbrush and medications in your carryon; you should also bring your passport . Because even if you are no...

A disclaimer: I never said I had a fun or easy way to study, or even a particularly original one. I only said that it worked (for me). When...

It’s not too cold . From my sitemeter stats, I know that none of you are running where you risk hypothermia from venturing outdoors, provide...

The light box thing came. It’s pretty funky. I got the desk lamp version, partly because it was listed on the sheet my doctor gave me and p...

I went in for my quarterly tune-up with my psychiatrist recently. I think he’s a little bored of me; he hasn’t had to tweak anything for age...

Medical school is full of “ That’s how that works?!!” moments. One I remember especially clearly was when I learned about scurvy: Scurvy ...

I got a call from the Medical Examiner's office that one of my patients was found dead. It was the woman I saw the other week, the one w...

Yes, I backdated my post to October. Suzan-Lori Parks may have been able to write a play a day for a year, but I know I’m not up to writing...

In response to my prior post , some people have requested specifics about the medications . My first was sertraline (Z*l*ft), an SSRI. Sta...

A student recently asked me, “When did you get to the point where you weren’t scared about seeing patients?” That’s an easy one. By the ...