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Reclaiming "Brown Girls Disease": Dr. Sameena Rahman on Walking Away From aSystem That Dismissed Women, and Building Her Own
There's a phrase some clinicians used for South Asian women with vaginismus or who couldn't tolerate a pelvic exam: "brown girls disease." Dr. Sameena Rahman is putting it on the cover of her first book instead of letting it stay a slur. The same instinct — reclaiming what a broken system got wrong — is what led her to walk away from 11 years of insurance-based gynecology and build GSM, her own concierge practice in Chicago.
Dr. Marci Nelson Joins Ms.Medicine, Opening Trillium Concierge Medicine in Edmonds, WA
Dr. Marci Nelson has delivered hundreds of babies in the Edmonds community over the past 25 years — and in some cases, she's now caring for the families those babies started. This fall, she's opening Trillium Concierge Medicine, finally giving her the time and structure to practice the kind of longitudinal, relationship-driven medicine she's built her career around.
Why Physicians Are Leaving Clinical Medicine Earlier Than Ever And What It Means for the Future of Care
The mean age at which physicians leave clinical practice has dropped from 57 to 48 in a single generation. That is not a trend. It is a structural collapse — and the data on why it is happening, especially for women physicians, is worth reading carefully.