Like Mother, Like Doctor is a TalkingScience blog written by Linda Brodsky and her daughter, Dana Greenfield. For their blog, they both write about the journey of becoming a doctor and all the challenges associated with it.
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Yes, my daughter the doctor-to be, if it were only our career choices that created confusion and uncertainty! How your words (and your angst) resonated with me and my own daily struggles in caring for patients. Even after a lifetime of practice (nearly 30 years), not a day goes by that I don’t feel humbled by a problem I cannot solve or a patient I cannot heal.
Learning to deal with the confusion created by the rapidly changing science of medicine which needs to be practiced on the ever changing …
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I know in my last post I expounded following one’s own interests, without any particular roadmap. This approach definitely has its positives. But sometimes confusion and uncertainty appear, and choices can be difficult to make. Solution? Mentors as my guideposts: While I may not be sure what might lay ahead, for the immediate future, they have helped me to know that at least I was in the right place.
Times have changed. And so have the kinds of advice and guidance that young people need. …
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Does anyone remember the scene in the movie Bye, Bye, Birdie, when the MacAfee family learns that Kim is going to be on that really big show, The Ed Sullivan Show? Does anyone remember how, transported to a scene in heaven, likely cloud nine, they sang, in four part harmony, “We’re Gonna Be On Ed Sullivan!”
Not a totally unbelievable scene for a family in the 1960’s. It was exciting to have a TV, much less to be on it. Back then the media consisted of print newspapers, magazines, …
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The first mentor ever mentioned is found in Greek mythology. When Odysseus begins his journey, his son, Telemachus, is left in the care of Mentor, for guidance and protection. The story unfolds with the goddess Athena intervening and assuming the form of Mentor in than she could encourage Telemachus to assert himself and take charge of his role in the lives of his mother Penelope and father Odysseus.
Is it an accident that the very first mentor in literature is both a mortal man and a female god? I …
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“Like Mother, Like Doctor” is a new blog on TalkingScience, written by mother-daughter team Linda and Dana. They will be blogging about the academic world of science – each will be writing posts about their lives and the science surrounding it.
No, I didn’t always want to be a doctor. For a while—I’d say from age 6 to 12–I wanted to be a pop singer or a Broadway star. School was never my strong suit, but singing was. I was pretty convinced that I would very soon be …
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“Like Mother, Like Doctor” is a new blog on TalkingScience, written by mother-daughter team Linda and Dana. They will be blogging about the academic world of science – each will be writing posts about their lives and the science surrounding it.
To begin our blog, “Like Mother, Like Doctor”, we, Linda and Dana, decided to interview each other about our experiences with becoming and being a woman in medicine. After all, between the two of us there’s a lot of firsthand experiences of what it means to be a woman …
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