Monthly Archives: July 2010

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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University of Texas at Houston: Welcome to the Hall of Shame

By Linda | July 21, 2010

Can Misogynists Be Rehabilitated?  Art Day, MD and the Case of the Travelling Neurosurgeon
Assaulted by multiple communications about Art Day, MD, former chairman of neurosurgery at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and soon to be program director for neurosurgical residents in the South, I have to interrupt my blog series for this important announcement.  Yes, [...]

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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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Climbing The Academic Medicine Mountain—Lesson 1. Getting on the Right Path

By Linda | July 1, 2010

Collision of two of my projects has left me with a mission to enlighten you about academic medicine. Academic medicine is medicine which is practiced in the setting of a medical school or a post-graduate (after medical school) residency training program. Definition: Residency training refers to the 3-7 years after medical school [...]

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