I am a pediatrician.
I live and work in a liberal city in a liberal state. As you may expect, of late, politics has been a hot topic of discussion at the hospital in which I work.
From the massive change in practice and policy-driven by the coronavirus pandemic to the sweeping change in immigration protections for families and children, politics has infiltrated medicine and my daily care of children throughout the …
Why politics has a place in medicine
I am not a black mother. I am white. I am a mother. I am also a pediatrician. Every day I work with mothers and their babies—black, brown, and white, as a newborn hospitalist on a busy, urban maternity unit. I know firsthand that the postpartum period is challenging and overwhelming for mothers. Are we making enough breastmilk? Is the baby starving? Will we ever sleep again? How does anybody …
The insufferable weight carried by black mothers in America
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