For nearly two decades, I sat in meetings, listened to leadership discussions, and navigated the institutional maze of advocating for funding for physician wellness programs. I saw the hesitation. The skepticism. The “we don’t have the budg…
A recent Time magazine article, “Women Live Longer Than Men—But Not in Medicine,” confirmed what many of us have long felt in our bones: Being a woman in medicine comes at a cost. A staggering one. Women physicians are dying younger than ma…