Off the Charts
A column by Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, M.D., M.S., a psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health and reproductive psychiatry. She is a graduate from Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and here she offers reflections on medicine and justice through the lens of a doctor with many identities: Black woman, immigrant, patient, mother, mental health advocate.
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Why is maternity leave for doctors such a complete mess?
Krystal Cascetta, Lindsay Clancy, and the impossibility of being a mom in American medicine
Affirmative action improved public health — and carried a high personal cost for Black physicians
A physician’s Mother’s Day gift: reclaimed time with my children — and for myself
‘Why would I want that?’: My sister’s simple question reshaped my physician job search
What racism in medicine takes from us
Operating at a loss: Our health care system depends on physicians donating their time
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