Your Doctor Friend by Mara Gordon
Mara Gordon, MD, Jessica Slice, Cait Van Damm, WeatherproofHealth care is a mess. Let's figure it out together.
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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...
"Sometimes you have to hurt to heal"
When Dr. Shanda McManus was a first-year medical student in Philadelphia, her younger brother was murdered near her family home in North Philly.
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She went to the hospital to identify his body. She grieved with her family. And then a...
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail
I recently reconnected with a friend from college whom I hadn’t seen in 10 years. As we talked over coffee on a beautiful spring morning, she told me about her work founding her own civil rights law firm.
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Her work, to me, s...
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Health care is a mess. Let's figure it out together. I'm a family doctor, mom, and writer. I write NPR's *Real Talk With A Doc* column. My book HOW TO TAKE UP SPACE is coming in Spring 2027.
Disabled author of Unfit Parent, This Is How We Play, Dateable. NYT, Modern Love, Washington Post, etc. Writing from my adjustable bed.
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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