By Rochelle Bach Each year as the holidays approach, countless medical families prepare for the dreaded release of the holiday schedule. Will the physician spouse be home this year? Will the non-physician spouse be packing up three kids under the age of five and traveling across the country alone to visit family they may only […] Continue reading → 
(Editor’s Note: As we gear up for the holiday season, the physician family is often reminded that the doctor’s schedule doesn’t necessarily mean a holiday for all of us. In the first issue of Physician Family, we asked a question about medical families and holidays and here is what some of our readers had to […] Continue reading → 
By Monica Swanson We had our first son after my husband’s second year of medical school. Just two years later, I was a full eight months pregnant with our second son when my husband graduated, and we made the big move to Oahu for Family Practice residency.
Son number three arrived during the third and […] Continue reading → 
Medical Marriage Q&A: Contempt and Burnout By Kim Blackham (Editor’s Note: In this week’s post, Marriage and Family Therapist and medical spouse Kim Blackham responds to a reader’s question from her September post on medical marriage.) Question: I am in tears tonight as I type this. After 10+ years of marriage I am so discouraged. […] Continue reading → 
From the Mouths of Babes By Jordyn Paradis Hagar One day a couple months ago, my two and a half year old looked me right in the eye and said, “Mommy, I’m happy to see you”. I felt my heart skip a beat, and warmth and joy consumed my entire body. What a pure and […] Continue reading →