Category Archives: On the Job

Gender Bias Can Be Lethal to Too Many Women Physicians—Part 2

By Linda | August 16, 2010

Gender bias, gender stereotyping, sexual harassment, and other forms of illegal but all too prevalent gender discrimination are lethal to some women physicians. At least 4 times more lethal if you are doctor than if you are not.
Resolutions offered to women physicians in response to these deadly experiences are entirely inadequate; the real problems [...]

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Increased Suicide Rates in Women Physicians—What’s Up Doc?

By Linda | August 11, 2010

Why write about such a gruesome topic when we want to encourage young women to become doctors and scientists? Prevention requires admitting there is a problem and only then can proper therapy begin.
Becoming a doctor is very difficult no matter if you are a man or a woman. You must climb a series [...]

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Creating a Family Care Giver: How We Did It

By Linda | July 26, 2010

Remember Jane and Michael Banks, of Mary Poppins fame? They hopefully sing to their parents their version of a perfect British nanny. “If you want this choice position, have a cheery disposition….play games, all sorts.” Contrast their hopes with the realities of their mother’s busy schedule fighting for women’s rights while staunchly [...]

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Family Care for the Busy Woman

By Linda | July 21, 2010

“How do you do it all?” That is the most common question I get from family, friends, students, residents and other random people who want to know how to fit in a busy career, raising three children, having a home to enjoy, a spouse to beat up on, and some time for myself. [...]

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Affordable Childcare Is Not Enough

By Linda | July 19, 2010

Any discussion about working women always includes the mantra, “If only we had affordable child care.” Affordable child care is necessary, but it is not nearly enough to allow women and men to function optimally at home and at work. By putting this issue front and center, we are unable to imagine (and [...]

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The Zen of Flexibility Part 2: Family Care–A New Concept for the Working Woman

By Linda | July 15, 2010

Flexibility is a learned habit. First, it takes courage to break out of rigid societal and personal expectations and become more flexible in your role as “headmistress” of a busy family. Second, it requires insight and then careful planning so that you (and the people you love) feel comfortable, cared for, safe and [...]

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The Zen of Flexibility—Transform Your Life and Your Work

By Linda | July 13, 2010

It’s time to turn yourself inward and find the flexibility you need to integrate all aspects of your life. And to do it, you are going to need lots of help.
What kind of help? That depends on what you are doing. Since I have been writing about the career and decisions of the [...]

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The View To the Top, When You Are At the Bottom—Finding Flexibility in the Workplace of Academic Medicine and Other Rigidly Evolved Work Settings!

By Linda | July 7, 2010

The academic medicine mountain is a steep climb, but the view from the top is worth the climb if you have certain goals for your professional medical life. Research, teaching and service gives you the opportunity to have impact well beyond the important, but necessarily limited, one on one physician-patient relationship. Heady stuff, but [...]

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When Patients Become Parents: A Blast from My Past

By Linda | February 19, 2010

Monday morning my office was filled with “new” patients. Seeing patients and families whom I have never met has a very different rhythm from a follow-up visit, so I alternate my days—mornings or afternoons for “new.”
After 26 years of practice in Buffalo I have met somewhere between 800 and 1000 new patients. By [...]

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Time to Put the Stops on Soda Pops!

By Linda | February 17, 2010

Not a day goes by without a new proclamation about the health risks or the health benefits of some food or drink. All this talk about digestion is enough to give you indigestion. But better indigestion than cancer.
So what’s the truth in this? Let’s look at our friends, the Italians, and others [...]

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