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The 1918 pandemic. The Great Depression. World War II. September 11, 2001. COVID-19. Paradigm shifts come along maybe once in a generation. They create a profound realignment across the globe, across industries, across economies and across populations. As the famed physicist Thomas Kuhn defined it in his seminal 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, …

The COVID-19 Paradigm Shift—From Values To Careers To Whole Economies Read More »

For most of my professional life, I’ve been a single mother of three beautiful children.  I grew up in a lovely and beautiful small town in middle Georgia, a town where the traffic lights start blinking at night because so few cars are on the road.  A town where people live in their same homes …

Doing the “Next Right Things” Read More »

Being a mother and Emergency Department physician during the time of COVID-19 is a major challenge.  My colleagues and I are grateful for our ability to step up and serve our communities, yet we also have families, and we worry about exposing them unnecessarily to this dangerous virus. We know that the number of reported …

Double Duty: Mother and Emergency Department Doctor Read More »