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July 22, 2024 • AAWEP Section
In an attempt to find more balance, I drastically changed my schedule four years ago.
I cannot recall when I first encountered the word ‘grief.’
Doctor's Journey Through a Parent's Farewell
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July 18, 2024 • AAWEP Section
AAWEP is headed to Costa Rica in February of 2025.
February 29, 2024 • AAWEP Section
Crows, lots of crows. I think there were 10 or so, all feeding and cawing around the pile left from field dressing my son’s first doe yesterday. Wow.
I remember my first time attending the ACEP council meeting was in 2022.
“Gende, we have a stroke alert coming to room two, ten-minute ETA,” the charge nurse called to me across the Emergency Department, thirty minutes before the end of my shift.
My youngest is in the kitchen, hacking a slightly past-date pineapple into sticky bits with a meat cleaver.
"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." – Seneca
September 19, 2023 • AAWEP Section
As women Emergency Medicine physicians we are all familiar with fractures and emergent fracture management. We easily recall the various means of fracture healing: immobilization, osteoblast activit...
Life is a journey of surprises and adventures. In the emergency department, we are surrounded every day by the unexpected turns of events that our patients face. Sometimes, change is intentional, pre-...
What drew me to the field of emergency medicine was a desire to solve problems - to help in tangible, practical ways. Sometimes the problems are simple to solve: suturing a laceration, splinting a bro...
June 26, 2023. That morning, just four days after our graduation celebration, our Upstate family was shaken by the death of one of our very own graduating senior residents. I remember the visceral fee...
As I sit here and write this, it is the beginning of July 2023 - the start of my second year of Emergency Medicine residency. Reflecting back, I'm surprised I made it this far. In life, it's easy to g...
May 13, 2023 • AAWEP Section
Beside her is her husband, leaning onto the gurney, holding her hand, and resting his head on her arm. She is holding her lower abdomen, with her neck flexed toward her chest and her eyes over-filled ...
"Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life." - Carl Jung.
According to two male doctors who commented on a story on Doximity, female physicians are the cause of the impending physician shortage.
COVID had nothing to do with our personal burnout. Shocking as that might seem, we were burned out (or better term — morally injured) from working in emergency medicine WAY before that.
February 8, 2023
Has the pandemic left you wondering about your future in emergency medicine? Join us for an engaging and interactive pre-conference to reinvent and reinvigorate your passion for medicine and leadershi...
February 6, 2023 • AAWEP Section
"You’re a doctor, right?” Somebody grabbed my husband’s arm, and he grabbed mine. The person had that look — the one any physician recognizes — the wild look of somebody terrified about an illness or ...
You are on shift in your emergency department. It has been an average, busy day working through delta troponins and those precious weak and dizzy complaints. Another patient pops up on the congested ...
Growing up, my siblings and I were told the many fascinating stories of my family in Pakistan and of our ancestors.
September 12, 2022 • AAWEP Section
As September continues to march along and ACEP22 draws near, we look forward to our AAWEP Section meeting so that we can gather together to share ideas and form bonds.
I’m sure we’re all too familiar with the universal lady doctor experience of not being perceived as “the doctor” by our patients.
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