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Emma Fenske is an internal medicine physician.

Divorced during residency: a story of clarity

Emma Fenske, DO
Physician
November 27, 2025

Keeping my head down and working through intern year was all I had known. My days blurred into nights, and my weeks into months. The dreary Pacific Northwest winters had only compounded this. Despite a quiet yearning for connection and community, I declined most social invitations. My sense of obligation did not end at the hospital doors. It followed me home, where expectations and emotional responsibilities lingered. I often felt …

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Divorced during residency: a story of clarity

Why women doctors are still mistaken for nurses

Emma Fenske, DO
Physician
June 21, 2025

It was early morning—likely the first appointment of the day. The music in the waiting room had not even been turned on yet, and the smell of coffee was just beginning to meet the air. After a few minutes, I was called back to a room and sat in the exam chair, already in scrubs and mentally preparing to scurry off to work right after. In fact, I was already …

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Why women doctors are still mistaken for nurses

Why blaming doctors won’t fix the U.S. health care crisis

Emma Fenske, DO
Physician
March 9, 2025

The tragic and shocking murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has ignited a nationwide conversation about the flaws in the health care system, often accompanied by misdirected anger toward physicians. The rhetoric suggesting that physician salaries are the root of the problem oversimplifies a complex issue and distracts from systemic failures.

Physician salaries account for only about 8 percent of …

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Why blaming doctors won’t fix the U.S. health care crisis

The political crossroads shaping the future of medical training

Emma Fenske, DO
Policy
December 26, 2024

As a training physician, the experience of navigating graduate medical education in today’s political landscape has introduced unprecedented adversity

Whether transitions in health policy or the continually evolving public perceptions of medicine as a field, trainees are now finding themselves at a unique crossroads where medicine, poignant societal issues, and personal morals intersect. While medicine is often influenced by policy of various forms, the current political climate, charged with intensely debated …

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