Your Doctor Friend by Mara Gordon
Mara Gordon, MD, Jessica Slice, Cait Van Damm, WeatherproofA doctor takes on diet culture and rediscovers what it means to be healthy.
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Five tips for staying human in a health care system that doesn't always want us to be
Welcome to Your Doctor Friend. I’m Mara, a family physician, mom, and writer. (Among other things! We contain multitudes!) I write about navigating health care, dismantling diet culture, and desperately keeping it together as a doctor mom....
Should *everyone* be taking hormone therapy?
When I was a medical student fifteen years ago, I learned that menopausal hormone therapy was scary and should be avoided at all costs. I learned that the symptoms of menopause were no big deal and women could deal with them.
Art by Sunnu...
Everyone knew what size scrubs I wore
As I’ve been finishing up edits on my book, I found myself fact-checking a detail that you wouldn’t notice unless you worked at one particular large teaching hospital in Philadelphia sometime in the last 25 years.
In the book, I share a st...
When PTO stands for "pretend time off"
I’m away this week, so I thought I’d dig into my own personal archives at NPR and share a piece I wrote a few years ago on a very salient topic: Why vacation is good for you and why doctors, in particular, have a hard time taking it.
I’ve...
A kind of diastole: A non-clinical day for Your Doctor Friend
Systole and diastole are physical phenomena, but they’re also useful metaphors in my life.
The terms refer to the contraction and relaxation of the heart. Intensity and rest. Both are critical to life. You can’t have one without the other...
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If your doctor told you what she's really thinking. I write NPR's *Real Talk With A Doc* column. My book HOW TO TAKE UP SPACE is coming in Spring 2027.
Journalist & author & podcaster. Disability and neuroimmune/neuropsychiatric illness. Unfit Parent, NYT, Modern love, Washington Post, NY Mag, Guardian, etc.
pelvic floor therapist with expertise in chronic pelvic pain for all genders.
I am a family medicine physician and writer. By curating health information and sharing the stories of black women, I hope to close the gap in positive health outcomes—in other words, make black women weatherproof.
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