Permission To Break My Heart
My five-year-old daughter Siena fell in love recently. It was with another girl - a five-year-old princess named Vivien, who lives in a castle in Chicago and is the daughter of my best friend Katsy. Siena and Vivien have known each other since they were three...
You’re Healed If You Think You Are
As research for my upcoming book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself, I have been digging deep into the medical literature, going back as far as the 1920s into medical journals in order to find cold, hard science to prove what I have long...
When Docs Get Annoyed At Empowered Patients
I felt my ire rise when I read this article on CNN about how patients are giving their doctors headaches. Apparently, this video entitled “The Patient Who Knows Too Much”, which is part of a training program aimed at doctors to help them deal with “difficult...
The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Part Two
Last week I wrote about the Doctor-Patient Relationship of the broken, outdated, patriarchal health care system of The Old Medicine. Today, I’m going out on a limb to suggest a new kind of Doctor-Patient Relationship, the kind I practice and I hope others in the...
The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Part One
When I was training to become a physician, the rules of the broken, outdated, patriarchal medical system were made clear to me. They went something like this. The Old Medicine As your doctor, I will sacrifice everything in my personal life in order to fix what is...
Is Alternative Medicine Just a Placebo?
As someone who supports many forms of alternative medicine, included many alternative medicine practitioners in my integrative medicine practice at the Owning Pink Center, and empowers my patients to seek out treatments based on the guidance of their healing inner...
Coming Out In My White Coat
I know I was a little cryptic when I announced that I’m putting my white coat back on, and I’ve gotten hundreds of sweet, curious, and supportive emails from you asking me what’s up and giving me high fives (Thanks loves!) Since then, I’ve been in my book-writing...
How To Be A Great Patient: A Doctor’s Wish List
Given the state of our broken health care system, I feel like we doctors don’t have much right to ask our patients how to behave, since most of us are falling far short of how our patients would prefer we behaved. As a patient, you may feel rushed, unheard, and...
I’m Putting On My White Coat – AGAIN
I’ve tried to leave medicine at least a dozen times. Medicine and I are like that couple that keeps breaking up and getting back together again, the ones you’re sure are done this time, only they kiss and make up and ultimately wind up engaged, leaving you partly...
Dedicated To The Outsiders
I was cleaning out my storage unit and came across the book of poems I wrote as a young girl - the book a publisher wanted to publish back when I was 15. (I politely declined - these were my private poems and not meant for public viewing.) This poem, which I wrote...
How To Protect Yourself From A Sleep Deprived Surgeon: An MD’s Thoughts On Being An Empowered Patient
As an OB/GYN physician who took overnight call for 15 years before leaving the practice of medicine, the CNN article about the latest editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, which discusses how sleep-deprived surgeons should consider disclosing their...
A Love Letter To Doctors
I have a confession to make. Four years ago, I was calling you the “Pod People,” because I felt so traumatized by the behavior of other doctors. When I quit practicing medicine around that time, I wanted to have nothing to do with doctors. I called myself a...
Things You Don’t Tell Your Doctor (But Should)
How many times have you filled out the form at the doctor’s office and lied? Everyone raise their hands (Bueller? Bueller?). Yeah, me too. And I’m a doctor. Why do we do this? Hey, there are some very personal questions on these forms! And you want your doctor to...
How To Change The World
I'd love to hear your thoughts, stories, and feedback on my "How to Change the World" manifesto. Feel free to share in the comments section...
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