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The political backlash to evidence-based doctors’ recommendations
Last week, someone referred to me online in the most shocking terms: a liberal. As I read the phrase, I gripped the pearls around my neck and coughed down my scalding afternoon tea. How could this have happened to me? With all its newsworthiness to the…
Stop dog-whistling the CDC
A beautiful woman, all mocha skin and glimmering eyeshadow, turned to me in Whole Foods and whispered: “I like your style.” I was alternately baffled and proud: Take that, lifetime of scrubs! Mama’s still got it. Then I looked down at myself and saw I …
No, I won’t play politics. I’m a doctor.
Sneeze, and you miss it: the public’s love for health care workers. This relationship has felt like a true Coronacoaster. Pre-COVID: physicians were disparaged for the sins of insurers and hospital C-suites. COVID appears: I was gifted a yard full of s…
To all the mom-shamers out there: Let’s demand the collective support we, our children, and our society need
How I long for the good old days of mom-shaming. Back then, you could tsk-tsk over any number of maternal decisions: breastfeeding or bottle-feeding; having children out of wedlock or in wedlock with another woman; staying at home, or working full time…
Where on earth have everyone’s manners gone?
There comes a day in every woman’s life when she must wonder: Where on earth have everyone’s manners gone? This phase of life, I once believed, was the same phase when I would shout things like: “You kids get off my lawn!” “Oh, it’s just a touch of gou…
