by Theresa | Feb 23 | Medicine
As your DrSpouse goes through medical training, they have to match in different cities to do residency and fellowship for a few years. So you have to be prepared to be whisked off to a city that you don’t know where the nearest grocery is. If you are going to...
by Theresa | Dec 8 | Medicine
Community is where someone says to you, “Me, too!!!” And that’s why medical families are who we hang out with and are a huge part of your community. We implicitly understand what you are experiencing: the nervousness and complexities of the Match,...
by Theresa | Oct 27 | Medicine
Everybody knows that it takes a super long time to become a doctor. In fact, it’s soooo long that there are official names to the years you spend in residency and fellowship such as PGY-N, where N = the number of years after medical school. For instance, PGY1...
by Theresa | Sep 8 | Marriage, Medicine
Just a tongue-in-check, light-hearted post. If you have experienced any of this, you are not alone! We ARE a community that gets one another! You Know You Are Married To A Doctor When… You plan to eat dinner alone every day. If they join, it’s just...
by Theresa | Aug 25 | Medicine
A few weeks ago, my husband completed his first year as a GI fellow. “How did it go?” you ask us? My husband would say he didn’t learn ANYTHING this entire year! Turns out, this is a very common response for any resident or fellow who just finished...
by Theresa | Jul 28 | Marriage, Medicine
Your friends who are not married to a doctor got married, bought nice homes, and had kids pretty much afterwards. Instead, medical couples decided that we like forever renting, that our late 20s/early 30s should be about “80” hour work weeks, and that our...