Back-to-School Season: Managing Your Own Health While Managing Everyone Else's
The kids' physicals get booked. The sports forms get signed. Your own overdue appointment gets filed under "later," and later has a way of becoming next spring. For women in the sandwich generation, the fatigue behind that pattern is not always just a busy season — sometimes there's a hormonal piece underneath it.
Women's Equality Day: Being Taken Seriously in the Exam Room
Women having a heart attack wait roughly 37 minutes longer than men before calling for help. That gap does not begin in the ambulance — it begins in exam rooms where a woman's account of her own body gets treated as an overreaction. On Women's Equality Day, Dr. Fiffick names the pattern and gives you four things to do at your next appointment.