Celebrating IES Women in Medicine!
On this International Women’s Day, we honor the extraordinary women who inspire, empower, and pave the way for women in medicine. Your strength, resilience, and dedication inspire progress and create lasting impact.
Today and always, we celebrate you—your voice, your vision, and your invaluable contributions to a healthier world. 💜✨
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Solitude is sacred. It’s also how you take your power back, ground your nervous system, and reset your energy. Spend a few moments in sacred solitude tonight, tomorrow, or over the next few days.
Birth requires
transformation
growth requires
transformation
healing requires
transformation
peace requires
transformation
fulfilling your vision
and dreams requires
transformation
transformation is how your life becomes what it’s supposed to be.
"Today, let’s remember that our greatest riches are often the ones we overlook. Cherish your family, value your health, and make the most of your time."
Heavy screen use might create a vicious cycle for young kids.
New data: the more time 3.5-year-olds spent on tablets, the more angry outbursts they had at age 4.5... and the more they used tablets at 5.5.
Digital soothing is not a substitute for teaching emotion regulation.
I'm not the best writer, but it is a strength. I might be a 90th percentile writer.
And I'm not the best marketer, but it is a strength. Again, maybe 90th percentile? I'm better than most, but if you pass 100 people on the street it won't be hard to find some people better than me.
What I have gradually learned is that it is not your strengths, but your combination of strengths that sets you apart. It is the fact that writing and marketing are mutually reinforcing—and that I enjoy both—that leads to great results.
How can you combine your strength? That's something I would encourage everyone to think about. You will find talented people in every area of life. It's the combinations that are rare.
A mark of emotional maturity is hearing disagreement without taking offense.
Thoughtful dissent doesn't always mean you're wrong. It often means the issue is complex and your knowledge is incomplete.
Good-faith debate isn't an attack. It's an opportunity to sharpen your ideas.
Being in a bad mood is not a license to be unkind. Being sensitive is not an excuse for being abusive.
Respect is a social responsibility. Treating it as optional reveals a lack of concern for others.
A mark of character is maintaining civility when things don’t go your way.
It's time to stop dumping thankless tasks on women.
Women get more asks than men to serve on committees, plan events, and take notes. They're more likely to be penalized if they say no—and taken for granted if they say yes.
Work should be divided equitably by role, not gender.
Me thinking about how middlemen in healthcare make billions profiting off of patients…meanwhile hardworking mom of two sweet kids is in tears in front of me sitting in an ER hallway bed because she couldn’t come up with the $800 UPFRONT that a specialist clinic required before seeing her little one for follow up…
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Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.
The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no.
Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die.
You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.
Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."
We are at our best when we serve others.
Be civilized.
Credit: Ira Byock.