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The American Medical Women’s Association has created this fund honoring Dr. Brodsky’s memory by endorsing her passions for gender equity, medical student success, clinical research and the advancement of women physicians. Funds will be used to support the Brodsky Memorial Scholarship and related initiatives promoting gender equity in medicine including but not limited to medical [...]

Role modeling is one of the cornerstones of good parenting. For mothers, like some of you and me, our values are reflected not only in our behavior but also in our appearance. These values are communicated every day and in every way to our children.
Sound overwhelming? Well, it certainly is. The responsibility and worry [...]

August, 2008.  All I wanted to do was write a book about my adventures in gender discrimination.  That’s how it all started 5 years ago.
“First, create an audience.  Write a blog,” was the advice I received and took from my public relations/image creators.  At first it was scary and hard.  Then as time went on [...]

Take your pick of medium:  TV, radio, podcasts, internet, face book, twitter, newsprint, blogs, email, etc.  No escape for anyone from the Zimmerman-Martin case.  And just articulating that sentiment bought upon me the label of “racist.”
How did this come about?  After 12 long hours in the OR, in a rare moment of insanity, I sat [...]

Abortion is not a topic that is easily discussed on a 500 word blog post.  The legal, moral, ethical and practical issues are far-reaching and complex.  Thus, I have avoided it for these nearly 5 years I have been posting on The Brodsky Blog.
But this week, when the North Carolina legislature upheld a ban on [...]