Category Archives: Mentorhood

On The Road to Wellness and Health–Guest Post from Ellen Grant PhD

By Linda | June 27, 2012

I met Ellen Grant PhD at a Buffalo women’s function last summer. Her story is great, her information valuable. I think of how brave one has to be to become an entrepreneur like
Ellen. Hope you enjoy this guest post as much as I did. (Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of the system [...]

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Important Announcement: The 5th World Conference on Women Is Getting Closer to Reality

By Linda | March 12, 2012

Last week was a news roller coaster for women worldwide. Come ride with me.
Reported at the International Trade Union Conference, women are paid 18% less than men worldwide for the same work. Taken from the report: “…..in the United States the statistics are bleak: Male workers age 30 or younger who have a middle level [...]

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Is A Powerful Mentoring Relationship the Key to Our Career Success?

By Linda | March 21, 2011

Women physicians, at all stage of their careers, cite having a mentor as a “very important” key to a successful career. These mentors unlock the doors of the structures that bar us from entry. They bring about opportunities that help us to advance.

While this sounds like a viable thesis, I think it [...]

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The Fifty Best Books Written by Women? Read for Yourself How One List Just Led to Another and Another and Another……..

By Linda | March 17, 2011

Lists seem to be the newest communications genre to bring attention to, well, anything. The Fifty Best Books Written by Women list arrived in my inbox from a very clever woman, Kate Rothwell. I don’t know Kate, but she clearly wanted everyone to read her blog. Why not? So she sent [...]

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Ask Linda: Your Dream Job in Medicine—Part 5

By Linda | December 21, 2010

“Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.” (Author unknown)
Creating your dream job isn’t easy. In the last four weeks you have examined your values, discussed them with knowledgeable others, investigated different environments, and aligned your needs and theirs. You’ve done a lot of hard work.
Now the [...]

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Ask Linda: Five Fundamentals for Creating Your Dream Job in Medicine: Getting What You Want Means Knowing Whom You Have

By Linda | November 29, 2010

# 2 Sounding Boards and Mentors Make the Job So Much Easier
Oodles have been written on mentors and mentorship. “Everyone should have one” is the standard advice. “You cannot succeed without one” is another mantra.
Yes, it is nice to have mentorship. But the role of “the mentor” does not have to [...]

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Ask Linda: How Do I Create My Dream Job in Medicine? Part 2

By Linda | November 23, 2010

Last week my post described my five fundamentals for creating your dream job in medicine. To recap:

Dig deep and identify those values most close to you so they are kept close at hand
Find a sounding board (aka mentor—someone who knows you and knows the playing field)
Look for a place that most closely approximates what [...]

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Ask Linda: How Do I Create My Dream Job in Medicine?

By Linda | November 18, 2010

Getting What You Want Means Knowing What You Want
This is a really, really hard question. And even though I pose it for physicians, I know that many other women professionals should ask themselves this question on a regular basis.
A month or so ago, I was in Boston at the annual meeting of the American [...]

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By Linda | November 2, 2010

Ask Linda is a forum in which you can pose questions of interest about women in today’s world. Though I am first and foremost an “expert” on the gender gap for women in medicine (physicians and patients alike), I am prepared to answer other relevant questions about medicine, the challenges women face in life and [...]

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Vision 2020: Setting the Healthcare Agenda

By Linda | October 26, 2010

Now over at the studios of WHYY, we had a nice conference room with large post-it white pads upon which the three work groups would take up these questions: What were the best ideas? What metrics are needed? What can be done in the short term? In the long term? [...]

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