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Melissa Parsons, MD
- May 20, 2018
- 10 min
Gender & Medical Education
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 ...
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Melissa Parsons, MD
- Apr 25, 2018
- 6 min
What is Mindfulness?
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...
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Melissa Parsons, MD
- Apr 3, 2018
- 7 min
My IVF Journey - Round 2
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...
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Melissa Parsons, MD
- Mar 18, 2018
- 3 min
Half But NOT Equal
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 ...
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Melissa Parsons, MD
- Feb 14, 2018
- 5 min
I Am The 1%
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...
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Melissa Parsons, MD
- Feb 13, 2018
- 3 min
Pobody's Nerfect
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...
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