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Increasing Your Milk Supply
How do you make enough milk to feed your babe? How can you increase your milk supply? What can affect your milk supply? And other...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Feb 5, 20214 min read
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Your Milk Supply - Things You Must Know
How do you make enough milk to feed your babe? How can you increase your milk supply? What can affect your milk supply? And other...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Jan 28, 20215 min read
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Pumping at Work: What's In My Bag?
I’ve shared the initial challenges of my breastfeeding journey. And after P and I finally got into a groove with breastfeeding at home,...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Jan 19, 20215 min read
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Our Milk System
I’ve shared the initial challenges of my breastfeeding journey. And after P and I finally got into a groove with breastfeeding at home,...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Jan 13, 20213 min read
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The Truth about Breastfeeding
Ladies, it's time for some REAL TALK about breastfeeding. It may be natural but it AIN'T EASY. It's time to stop making new mamas...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Jan 7, 20214 min read
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Infertility in Female Emergency Medicine Physicians
As many of you know, my infertility journey was an impetus for me - a call to action to spread the news about #PhysicianInfertility....
Melissa Parsons, MD
Oct 28, 20202 min read
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To the Emergency Medicine Doctor Thinking "Another Vag Bleeder"
I see you. I’ve been you. I’ve wondered WHY these women come into the ED when they’re having a miscarriage. I cannot do ANYTHING to fix...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Sep 16, 20192 min read
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Our Infertility Adventure Part 3
This is part 3 our our adventure... See Part 1 and Part 2. Ever wonder what happens when you get diagnosed with an ectopic? Well that...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Nov 18, 20185 min read
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Forget Work-Life Balance... Start managing your Energy
Everyone talks about work-life balance. There is NO steady state of balance. Your seesaw of life is never going to be perfectly balanced...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Jun 1, 20183 min read
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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...
Melissa Parsons, MD
May 20, 201810 min read
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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...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Apr 25, 20186 min read
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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...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Apr 3, 20187 min read
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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...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Mar 18, 20183 min read
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The Things I WISH I Had Learned in Medical School
I started this blog with the goal of reaching out to young women entering the field of medicine. I wanted to share my experiences, the...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Mar 6, 20182 min read
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What is This Wellness You Speak Of? ~ Part 2
Studies show that physicians who CARE FOR THEMSELVES do a BETTER job of caring for others and are less likely to commit errors, be...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Feb 26, 20182 min read
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What is This Wellness You Speak Of?
What is wellness? How do we define it? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, wellness is "the quality or state of being in good...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Feb 18, 20186 min read
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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...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Feb 14, 20185 min read
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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...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Feb 13, 20183 min read
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Welcome to Controlling the Chaos
Hi and welcome. I am Dr. Melissa Parsons, an Emergency Medicine physician that was nicknamed "Controlled Chaos" before I ever stepped...
Melissa Parsons, MD
Feb 12, 20181 min read
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Welcome to Controlling the Chaos - a blog about striving for wellness and empowering female physicians in the chaos that is medicine. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter @melissaparsonsmd or link below!
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