Laura Vater, MD

Physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals face high levels of occupational stress throughout medical training and practice. We w...

Working in the hospital doesn’t exactly promote the health of clinicians. Here some strategies that have helped me stay healthy.

Discriminating against those who bring life into this world degrades the medical profession and lessens the perceived value of human life.

My mom was life-lined to a critical care unit. I was a first-year med student, and I remember only pieces of that first day...

“I’m so tired,” my husband says. Meanwhile, I’m post-call and have been awake for 30 hours straight. I’ve admitted five patients, pronounced

My mom went to medical school at age 37, and I was nine. She showed me that having a career and a family was both feasible and meaningful.

I asked every residency program (in advance) for access to a lactation room. For some programs, it was the first time they had been asked...

I recognize now that research competence is really all about skill building. If you increase your competence, you will increase your...

Focusing is hard. Here are some tips that have helped me study during medical school and for board exams like the USMLE Steps 1, 2, and 3.