Melissa Parsons, MD

I see you. I’ve been you. I’ve wondered WHY these women come into the ED when they’re having a miscarriage. I cannot do ANYTHING to fix t...

This is part 3 our our adventure... See Part 1 and Part 2. Ever wonder what happens when you get diagnosed with an ectopic? Well that nig...

Everyone talks about work-life balance. There is NO steady state of balance. Your seesaw of life is never going to be perfectly balanced ...

I was raised as “the son my father never had.” I grew up fishing and hunting with the boys or roaming the middle of the soccer field as ...

How many times do you find yourself ruminating over the past? "If only I'd done… If wish I had said… I should have… etc." Or how much ti...

I already shared with you the start of my IVF journey and how I became the 1%. If you didn’t read it yet, look back at my post. So here...

The year, 2017, was a big year for women in medicine. It marked the first time that the number of women enrolling in US medical schools ...

I started this blog with the goal of reaching out to young women entering the field of medicine. I wanted to share my experiences, the t...

Studies show that physicians who CARE FOR THEMSELVES do a BETTER job of caring for others and are less likely to commit errors, be impair...

What is wellness? How do we define it? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, wellness is "the quality or state of being in good ...

My infertility journey started last year at FIX – the FemInEM Idea Exchange – as I sat in a hotel room with another EM physician and a bo...

Like most of the alpha-female, driven, women in medicine, I strive for perfection. From straight A’s in grade school to superb MCAT and S...

Hi and welcome. I am Dr. Melissa Parsons, an Emergency Medicine physician that was nicknamed "Controlled Chaos" before I ever stepped foo...