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Today is my 32nd birthday and despite being a physician and attorney I have never had a job that provides 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
The system is not designed for women to succeed.
Kimi Chernoby, MD JD MA
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Kimi Chernoby, MD JD MA
@KimiChernoby
Emergency Medicine Doc, Repro Health Lawyer; lover of all things health policy, bioethics, bread baking
Alexandria, VA
Joined January 2009
- To put things into context, if I get COVID my law job would expect me to isolate for ten days and would pay me sick leave. My hospital would expect me back in zero to five days and I would have no pay for missed shifts. Is it clear why health care workers are burned out?
- Hospital admin comes down to deliver the daily bed count, looks at me sitting at the doc desk and goes: “Oh is there not an attending today?” Because running an ED without a doctor some how makes more sense than me being the doctor 🙃 Don’t worry I kindly introduced myself.
- Turns out throwing up every day for 9 months can give you TWELVE cavities. Remind me again how pregnancy is a benign event with no long term effects.
- My pregnancy is very wanted and very miserable. Here’s a pic from me at work covered in puke stains bc sometimes while driving I start vomiting uncontrollably. Nobody who doesn’t want to be pregnant should be forced to stay pregnant 💫.
- Am I exhausted because I’m 31 weeks pregnant or because today is day 12 of working 20 days in a row. This is what saving up for unpaid maternity leave looks like 🙃😵💫🙃.
- Omg someone just referred to 2022 as “Junior year of the pandemic” and that hurt
- WE DID IT!!! 🎉🎉 @IUSMEmergMed residents approved 2 new policies today: no nights or call for residents in their 1st or 3rd trimester, and flexible scheduling for all new parents upon return. Overwhelming support from the residents.
- The lab is literally calling the ED with COVID positive results five at a time now 🤯🤯
- As an Emergency Medicine physician who has diagnosed countless miscarriages and a reproductive rights lawyer, I can not emphasize enough how much I hate the collision of my two professional worlds. Just let docs take care of patients 🤯🤯.
- Dental receptionist: have you been exposed to any with covid? Me: Well I work in an emergency department Her: yes but have you been around anyone with covid? Me:...
