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Family-Friendly Workplaces as a Foundation for the Future of Pediatrics
Bonita Stanton, MD
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161(5):511-514.
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How can we—as pediatricians and more broadly as people devoting our careers to medicine—work together to improve the interplay of personal and professional roles? As I set out to share my observations and thoughts about the importance of creating family-friendly workplaces for the future of pediatrics as a profession, let me start on a personal note, as personal is precisely the heart of the matter.
In October 1978 when my husband and I were both senior residents, our first daughter was born. Just weeks later, I was back in the hospital, resuming every fourth night call. I was breastfeeding, and despite our efforts my daughter refused to take anything from a bottle. So with youthful enthusiasm and inexperience, we hatched a plan: when I was on call, my husband (juggling his own call schedule) would drive to the hospital a few times a night with my daughter . . . [Full Text of this Article] AUTHOR INFORMATION
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