12/18/21 Please hug your loved ones. ❤️ Reach out to your neighbors. Hold each other close. Watch out for others. Ask if they’re ok, and listen, really listen, to their answer. It takes a village. 💕 After the postpartum death of a Minneapolis doctor, it takes a village to feed her son Sharing in memory … More It Takes A Village
with Dr. Michelle Chestovich, Doctors Changing Medicine Podcast, by Dr. Una, Episode 32, 12/1/21. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doctors-changing-medicine/id1562522187?i=1000543602508 This is perhaps one of the MOST IMPORTANT PODCAST episodes ever created. If you are a physician or know a physician (which is pretty much everyone because we’re ALL patients!) PLEASE LISTEN. Then reach out and ask your colleagues, your … More Physician Suicide Is Closer Than You Think
11/16/21 I wrote “From Frontline “Heros” to the Last line of Defense” one year ago today, on 11/16/2020. Prior to SAFE and EFFECTIVE #COVID19vaccines, recently FDA EUA APPROVED for everyone ages 5y/o & older, being widely & readily available. I honestly thought, as did many of my physician colleagues, that we’d be in a very … More A Year Later, 20 months on the Frontline
10/31/21 Saturday’s EWP session with Kristin Neff, PhD, & Sunny Smith, MD was AMAZING. Re: self compassion & saying words of kindness & support to yourself, I thought I’d share a magnet on my fridge that I bought years ago. Words Matter.Self talk matters. Having fierce self compassion is so important & so needed in … More Fierce Self Compassion
Most. AMAZING. Experience. New friends. New ideas. New Dreams. Overcoming obstacles. Committing to creating the life you want, have worked for, & deserve. Lifting each other. Celebrating wins. Sharing fears, insecurities, & recognizing we all experience similar thoughts & beliefs. Solidifying our whys. Planning our next steps as we reach, create, & journey toward our … More EntreMD Vision Retreat 2021
10/9/2021 This morning, while scrolling through social media, I encountered a resounding theme. Multiple physicians posting about being challenged, disrespected, & made to feel worthless by the very people they were trying to help: their own patients. Being brought to tears by the disrespect of patient’s family members. Physician expertise blatantly questioned. Advice ignored. Patients … More Expertise, Respect, & Boundaries
9/28/21 Currently my family member is hospitalized in LA for a non-COVID19 related medical issue. She’s in an overflow room with 14 other patients divided by curtains. She’s grateful so is calling it a “party room” as she’s extremely thankful to every overworked HCW helping care for her. She’s triple COVID19 vaccinated. She eats right, … More Mindset
8/25/21 In scrolling through FB this morning, I came across a post by a fellow physician mama, in which she acknowledged she is not ok. She is struggling. And she’s sitting in the all the feelings, allowing them to wash over her, the bad, the hurt, the disgust, the anger, the hopelessness. Allowing, admitting & … More It’s ok to not be ok
🌟SAFE. EFFECTIVE. & FDA APPROVED‼️🌟 If you’re 16y/o & older & have yet to be vaccinated – NOW IS THE TIME‼️ Today, August 23, 2021, the FDA announced full approval of the Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine for ages 16y/o & older. The Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine remains authorized for emergency use (EUA) for ages 12-15y/o’s, … More COVID-19 Vaccine FDA Approval
#DELTA IS BAD! If you’ve yet to get vaccinated – NOW IS THE TIME! Over the past week #COVID19 infection rates & hospitalizations are increasing, in fact they’re surging! Yes. Surging! It’s happening again. This #Deltavariant is MORE INFECTIOUS than influenza, the common cold, than the initial strains of COVID-19, SARS, MERS, Ebola. And DELTA … More NOW IS THE TIME. The Rise of Delta.