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 that. I have thought ...

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 night, I had the reside...

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

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 “controlled chaos”. ...

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 time do you spend worr...

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 goes part two: Afte...

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 exceeded the number ...

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 things I learned ofte...

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

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

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 bottle of champagne, c...

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 STEP scores to being ...

Hi and welcome. I am Dr. Melissa Parsons, an Emergency Medicine physician that was nicknamed "Controlled Chaos" before I ever stepped foot an in ER. My curr...