If that coughing and wheezing febrile premee is a boy he is at greater risk for a bad outcome due to his prenatal testosterone causing a delay in his lung maturity. If the patient with afib is a woman, she is at higher risk to stroke out and her stroke is more likely to be hemorrhagic. In addition, she is at a greater risk for developing both a prolonged Qtc from certain anti-arrhythmics, and for digoxin toxicity plus she will require smaller amounts of warfarin to become therapeutic.

There is still a marked disparity between the number of women in emergency medicine and the percentage of female leaders. This is damaging both to female physicians and to the specialty as a whole.

Deeply ingrained gender traits make it difficult for many female emergency physicians to successfully negotiate their contracts. Here are five negotiating pitfalls, and strategies for breaking the cycle.

When Karen Sibert, an anesthesiologist with four children, wrote an op/ed piece in the New York Times about the deleterious economical and societal impact of physicians who choose to work part time, my email inbox exploded. Comments were all over the place, from “You’ve gotta be kidding,” to “Wonder if it would have been printed if a man wrote it,” to “Raises some interesting points.”

EPM investigates why starting salaries for women emergency physicians appear to be nearly $13,000 lower than male counterparts.

Emergency physicians may be the “jack of all trades” but we are the kings and queens of conflict management. If we define conflict as the simple mismatch between two parties’ expectations, EPs start holding court before we have even buttoned up our white coats.

Please take a moment to fill out the following brief survey on the impact of personal conflict within the emergency department:

Many of us find our lives to be far more scheduled than reflective. Sometimes it takes an “aha” moment to shake us awake. For Dr. Julia Huber, an emergency physician, that wake up call came at the end of a shift... Dr. Huber realized that “work-life logistics” were entirely different than a true “work-life balance” and that she was ready for a change. But where should she start? Enter the life coach.