DR. JO ANN GATES

We should all celebrate Women Physicians! "For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women." -Elizabeth Blackwell Elizabeth Blackwell was born 200 years ago today. In her lifetime she would become the first woman to be trained as a physician in the United States after a difficult journey across the sea from England. Dr. Blackwell opened the door for the rest of us, but the path we follow remains arduous

Insight into how caregivers can repeatedly bear witness to tragedy. "Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." - From the Dhammapada We physicians stand witness to countless tragedies in our careers. At some point, as we stand by the bedside of a dying patient, comfort a heartbroken relative or officially call a death, we learn that love and loss, and sorrow and joy, are inter

How looking deeper led to greater understanding and boundless compassion. "Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings." - From the Karaniya Metta Sutta I was nearing the end of my pediatrics rotation as a third-year medical student when the senior resident asked me to admit a patient to the general pediatrics floor. The only information I had as I headed down to the intensive care unit was that she