Doctor and Patient: The Bullying Culture of Medical School. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's 2008 Harvard Commencement address. Can Doctors Have Work-Life Balance? Medical Students Discuss. If having work-life balance is important to you, then don’t become a doctor. That was Dr. Karen Sibert’s advice to students considering careers in medicine, in a controversial New York Times op-ed last summer. “You can’t have it all,” Sibert wrote, exhorting students — women mostly — to remember that “medical education is a privilege, not an entitlement, and it confers a real moral obligation to serve.” If you want to work and be a mother, then you can find a job in journalism or professional cooking or law.
But “if you want to be a doctor, be a doctor,” wrote Sibert, an anesthesiologist, concluding: “Patients need doctors to take care of them. Sibert’s piece likely sparked countless conversations — and moments of doubt — at medical schools around the country. What follows are excerpts of that roundtable conversation. The students’ responses: Their responses: D.M.: Both my parents are in primary care, and seeing them practice has been a powerful example of how the field has changed. Dr. Don’t Quit This Day Job. The Optimistic Life. Yvetta Fedorova My recent column on optimism drew hundreds of comments from readers who testified to the value of living life as a glass half full.
But one in particular — from a 90-year-old man living in Calabasas, Calif. — was especially telling. The reader, William Richmond, wrote that a phrase in the column, “Fake it until you make it,” summed up his long and very successful life. His approach to life could serve as a battle plan for the millions of recent college graduates now searching for work in an unforgiving job market, as well as for older adults trying to re-enter the workplace after a long hiatus and those who lost jobs and must now reinvent themselves. In 1946, after serving nearly four years as a fighter pilot in the Marine Corps, Mr. After all, he’d managed to fly solo and safely land a Piper Cub after just six hours of training, then spent the next year learning to be a pilot. Mr. Noting Mr. “The important thing,” Mr. Committing to Action In an interview, Dr.
Dr. The science of being a working mother: The M.D. Studies have found little difference between the children of working mothers… (Betsie Van Der Meer, Getty…) If you ask my 10-year-old son, he'd tell you that I'm not a "real doctor.
" His point of reference is my husband, David, a surgeon who usually leaves the house before 6 and works 12-hour days. Most mornings, while David is at the hospital preparing for the operating room, I'm home making breakfast for our kids or packing lunches for school. In the late afternoons, while David is wrapping up office hours, I'm busy driving my son to soccer practice or overseeing his homework. It wasn't always this way. Deciding to scale back at work wasn't easy.
Business - Derek Thompson - 3 Charts Explaining How Moms and Dads Balance Work and Family. Anne-Marie Slaughter's controversial cover story for The Atlantic this month acknowledges a simple point: There is a "family cost" to your career and a "career cost" to your family.
Time is finite, even if our ambitions aren't. This is a trade-offs millions of parents recognize every day. Today, even with women accounting for a nearly equal share of the labor force, it is still the case that working mothers spend much more time with their children than working fathers. How much more? We can answer that question in graphs, thanks to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly review of working parents from 2008.
Transcript and Video of Speech by Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook. Thank you, President Spar.
Magazine - Why Women Still Can’t Have It All. The culture of “time macho”—a relentless competition to work harder, stay later, pull more all-nighters, travel around the world and bill the extra hours that the international date line affords you—remains astonishingly prevalent among professionals today.
Nothing captures the belief that more time equals more value better than the cult of billable hours afflicting large law firms across the country and providing exactly the wrong incentives for employees who hope to integrate work and family. Yet even in industries that don’t explicitly reward sheer quantity of hours spent on the job, the pressure to arrive early, stay late, and be available, always, for in-person meetings at 11 a.m. on Saturdays can be intense. Indeed, by some measures, the problem has gotten worse over time: a study by the Center for American Progress reports that nationwide, the share of all professionals—women and men—working more than 50 hours a week has increased since the late 1970s. Revaluing Family Values.
It’s Not About You.