My latest for @nytimes on working mom “burn out”. Spoiler alert: this isn’t burn out. This is much more. This is systemic betrayal.

nytimes.com/2021/02/04/par… Over the nearly 1 year of this pandemic, I sit behind my computer screen and try to help my patients, most of whom are mothers, many “working from home”, cope with the rage, powerlessness, and guilt that have come to define life.

I want to use this platform to tell a personal story of professional gaslighting that *almost* drove me out of medicine. #ShareTheMicNowMed .@AmmahStarr thread/ I joined Mount Sinai as faculty after completing an HIV/research fellowship. I worked in the @ArnholdInst, and had the pleasure of leading a team tasked with optimizing how health systems delivered ambulatory care to patients in NY and globally. 2/

Lots coming out around @danielleofri ‘s latest NYT piece. Everything she says here is gold and points to the ways in which the altruism of physicians has been taken advantage of. As a psychiatrist, I always like to take it a little deeper.... (A THREAD 1/10)

https://twitter.com/danielleofri/status/1137531455658237952

Last week in #mdedgechats abt physician suicide, I brought up how strange it is that the most highly educated professionals in the US somehow ended up not being in control of their own profession? Lawyers CEO's, politicians make the decisions about medicine not doctors. 2/10