by Theresa | May 12 | Medicine
After my husband opened up the letter on Match Day to find the results of his Match and where we were going to live for the next three years, I proudly posted on my Facebook wall, “We matched!” A commenter asked, “Are you a dual-physician couple?“ I wrote back,...
by Theresa | Apr 28 | Marriage, Medicine
“How are you holding up?” people ask me. We’re about two months into corona. And I still don’t know how to answer it. But we’ve had time to adjust to it. However, I still have some sort of phantom feeling that there’s somewhere I need to be. But when I open up my...
by Theresa | Feb 25 | Marriage, Medicine
You said “I do” to the person of your dreams, and that person happens to wear a white coat. Lots of joy and happiness follow when you get married, but you know like all marriages, it’s not going to be all rainbows and unicorns 😀 The truth bomb is...
by Theresa | Jan 28 | Medicine
In medicine, we have a super nerdy saying: “Like an EKG, if life didn’t have its ups and downs you would be dead.” It’s true, though. There are days that are better than others. Some days are downright awful. For those in residency and...
by Theresa | Sep 24 | Medicine
You probably know by now that my blog DocWife.com is a passion project. But you may not know that healthcare recruiting is my full-time livelihood. It’s how I am supporting my family right now through medical school, residency and fellowship. There are only so...
by Theresa | Aug 27 | Medicine
SOOO…I hear you’re trying to match into fellowship…are you nuts??? Wasn’t residency torture enough?? Just kidding! We were the same! 😝 After residency, my husband applied for GI fellowship. Sadly, we didn’t have a straight-forward...