My morning coffee rhythm is more than a caffeine boost to get me going…it’s a routine that gives me just a dose of delight. Being a doctors wife means I’ve got lots of long days solo parenting, so I’ll take all the extra emotional support I can get! But, I’m super picky with the coffee I like to drink (blame it on my in-laws being coffee roasters!). If it’s a dark roast (Starbucks 😬), it doesn’t produce any delight. At all. When my friend Michelle introduced me to @cometeer coffee, I thought it was to good to be true. ☕️ High end coffee shop espresso shots right in your own kitchen. With NO fuss of making them. Just grab one out of the fridge and defrost under a stream of hot water for 20 seconds. Add to milk or water and you are good to go!Tim and I both have each other the shocked look when we tried it the first time. Easily the best home made latte I’ve ever had.At a fraction of the cost of a bougie coffee shop coffee. 🤌🏻They also sell decaf and it’s FAB too!You can use the pods in your @keurig as well!So, here’s your hint. Try Cometeer coffee pods. You’ll thank me later. 🤍 Comment “coffee” below and I’ll send you a link that gets you $20 off your first order! #doctor #doctorwife #medwife #marriedtomed #married2med #marriedtomedicine #doctorwifelife #drwifelife #doctorwifey #cometeer
Taking out $400,000 in debt might not seem hefty if you’ll eventually make $200,000+Lemme tell you though, it’s still A LOT to manage even on a larger salary. Here’s two tips that will hopefully help your physician finances…1. Attend a public medical school! My husband LOVED his education at the private institution he attended, but looking back that’s one step he could have taken to reduce the loan burden.2. In residency or fellowship, contact a physician specific financial advisor! We will be working with one to help us come up with a repayment plan. He’ll crunch the numbers to figure out if paying them off quick is best or if a slower route might be better for our circumstances. Bonus tip: DO NOT take on any additional minor debts during training if possible. Buy the cheaper car. Live within your means. Refrain from big vacations. How long are you hoping it takes to pay off your loans??? What’s your speciality???? #drwife #doctorhusband #whitecoatwife #medschoolloans #medschoolwifelife #medschoolwife #doctorwife
12 days straight start NOW for our family! And every doctors wife screams HELP! I never look forward to the two weeks a month Tim doesn’t get a single day off. They’re wearisome! But, I can say, they do get a little easier the more often we do them. I don’t have as extreme of emotions as I used to, at least 😂.I also know these weeks require a touch of extra grace be given to myself AND to my husband. Everyone’s tired, so save the hard conversations that can wait when call is over. If the hard convo can’t wait, remind yourself you are both on the same team! Be patient and try to have the convo after work hours rather than on the phone while they’re at the hospital.Call weeks should just be renamed “extra Grace weeks”#doctorwife #doctorhusband #physician #doctor #residentwife #residentwifelife #doctorwifelife #drwife #marriedtodoctors #medicalmarriage
Do you keep frozen foods on hand to simplify late nights, weekend work, and long shifts??Frozen foods ALWAYS on hand here for the nights a late consult comes in 😅 .....#marriedtomedicine #doctorwife #medschoolwife #medwife #medspouselife #attendinglife #medwifelife #residentwife #residentwifelife #residency #consult #medicalconsult #physicianfamily #drwifelife #doctorwifelife #physicianfamily
when “one more consult” comes in … leftovers it is!..... #drwife #drwifelife #marriedtomedicine #marriedtodoctors #doctorswife #physicianwife #physicianintraining #residentwife #marriedtodoctors #medicalmarriage #physicianpartners
Death and the emotions of it are real realities for physicians. Counter to what you may have thought - doctors do feel the emotions and weight of death. Doubly so if they’d made a connection with the patient or their family. It’s not something many physician spouses even think about…until their 👨🏽⚕️ 👩🏼⚕️ person comes home from a shift maybe acting *off* or *different* As Tim and I have had to navigate this hard reality together, here are some tips I’ve learned along the way to help bring support.1. Listen MORE than you talk. It’s easy to minimize the pain or brush it aside since you didn’t experience it. It’s still very real to your 🧑⚕️ 🩺 spouse and they may need a listening ear to release emotion to and reflect.2. Empathize with your spouses emotions. Tell them you understand how hard processing a death might be and that you are there for them.3. Don’t think it’s a one-and-done moment of processing their emotions. Check in with them 1-2 weeks later to see how they are doing relating to maybe a specific death that was hard for them. 4. Hug them and hold them. Sometimes this can be the best form of comfort you can offer. 5. If needed - encourage your spouse to seek professional counseling. Especially if patient death is a part of their daily lives. Physicians are human too and sometimes need help processing all that they are experiencing.6. Give yourself grace! This is a HARD topic and you won’t get it “right” the first time around! When the emotions subside - ask your spouse how they’d like your support the next time a patient death is hard for them! Add your own tips below ⬇️ This is a topic where spouses can support spouses! .....#doctorwife #doctorslife #doctorswife #marriedtomedicine #doctorwife #medicalspouse #medicalwife #medschoolwife #medwife #medspouselife #attending #medwifelife #firstresponderwife #frontlineworker #residentwife
Touching the tip of the 🧊 berg of things needing to be normalized in medical training! Here’s another: that cardiologists and neurosurgeons are the most “prestigious” doctorsCan we just stop with the word prestigious already?!What would you add to this list?!!......#doctorswife #theresidentswife #residentwife #physicianwife #residency #medicalschool #marriedtomedicine #doctorswifelife
I used to believe the *myth* until I learned that physicians HAVE to practice within the school that they’ve been trained. AND. They can only prescribe treatments that have the medical guidelines stamp of approval.There’s so much distrust and angst against physicians out there. Just know, it’s not your physicians fault for refraining from talking about balancing gut flora or using specific vitamins to support your health or explaining in detail what a healthy diet is. This means they’re trained within the scope of utilizing drugs, not supplements or tinctures or homeopathy. It is what it is even if you don’t agree!It’s not their fault BECAUSE western medicine didn’t train them in any of these things. It’s outside their scope of practice (as unfortunate as that is!) and their license to keep working depends on prescribing and educating within certain guidelines.Physicians practice western medicine. Western medicine isn’t 100% perfect by any stretch and it would do well to learn from its European cousin as well as its neighbor in the Far East. But, we aren’t there yet.So, let’s give a little more grace to physicians! Even if you choose a healthcare provider trained outside of the western medical system.....#westernmedicine #functionalmedicine #drwife #doctorwife #doctorwifelife #doctorhusband #marriedtomedicine
Seeing as I only have a 3-8% chance of getting into medical school, have to lose my social calendar during those years, only to “get my own personality” … I think I’ll pass, but thanks! #drwife #doctorwife #doctorhusband #marriedtomedicine #Married2Medicine# #doctorwifelife
Guarantee every doctors wife relates! We ALL have a story where their friends have been horrified by the stories their spouse tells about hospital life!One of Tim’s stories revolves around a eye glasses being shoved up a 🍆 (yes, the male body part of that 😉) 😂 and that’s just the beginning!#married2med #married2medicine #marriedtodoctors #marriedtomedicine #doctorswife #doctorwife #doctorwifelife
Because reality is really really sweet 🤍 and being a doctors wife doesn’t mean you live in the nicest home in the city right after medical training!Everything has a season and right now this season feels hard, but it’s also so so sweet. What was your first home like post medical training? #doctorhome #doctorwifelife #nashvilledoctor #marriedtodoctors #marriedtomedicine #marriedtomed #residentwifelife #medschoolwifelife
It can get awkward when those who are close to us aren’t fans of the medical “establishment” our physician spouses work in. And it’s even harder when it seems like all doctors are lumped into the category of “untrustworthy.”As a person who values many crunchy things myself, I have no judgement to pass because I used to be 100% in the crunchy communities shoes. I drilled Tim on my crunchy perspectives before marrying him, making sure he wouldn’t force western medicine onto me.Then, I married him and became a western medicine doctors wife 😱 (after he passed my test). And we began to talk and he began to explain the processes and procedures of western medicine protocols. And guess what, it’s not perfect and we as a family don’t agree to all the FDA guidelines. Physicians are lacking knowledge in lots of basic preventative health and wellness knowledge (they’re taught next to nothing on nutrition or environmental risk factors for instance.)But, physicians have an important role in our communities and families! And, the majority DO have your well being at heart and aren’t out to get you or bring your health down. Just know, condescending talk about physicians/medicine doesn’t aid your case in helping change the tide where natural medicine and western medicine might be able to coexist someday! It’s actually putting a wedge and creating further harm. Now, this doesn’t mean physicians are off the hook! But that’s a post for another time 🤍So, from a physician wife who see’s both sides, I encourage you to spread a bit more grace to doctors who are really truly doing their BEST to care for patients in an ethical loving way! #doctorwife #drwife #marriedtomedicine #residentwife #marriedtodoctors #medspouselife #medspouse #westernmedicine
File this under: things you don’t need to know, but now do! 😂 I love hearing random medical facts from physicians…HBU?! Being married to an infectious disease doctor means I know more than I ever wanted about diseases! I’m set for a lifetime 😂 What random medical facts do you know being married to med?#infectiousdisease #doctorofinstagram #doctor #marriedtomedicine #doctorhusband #doctorwife #marriedtodoctors
Cause it’s usually a rare sighting!! I’ll never forget seeing Tim work on the house for the first time 😍 HOTTIE! Most physicians just don’t have the time and they never have learned handy man skills. But whooooeeeee, catch one mowing the lawn or swinging a hammer and their woman will be 😍🥰😘#doctorsofinstagram #doctorgram #doctorhusband #doctorswives #doctorwife #doctorwifelife #doctorscouple
5 tips for physician families when taking a vacation #doctorsofinstagram #doctorhusband #doctorsoffacebook #drwife #doctorswife #doctorlife
Praying that doctors wives who need encouragement will find their way here. And that we will all learn to give grace more freely because we ALL need grace given to us. This space is safe for you 🤍 #doctorwife #doctorlife #marriedtomedicine #medlife
…thankfully he irons is own clothes 😂 🙈 but the pile that builds up after every wash is enough to make me HEAVILY consider purchasing him some scrubs. Double tap if you understand the pain that comes with needing to iron business clothing constantly!#doctorwife #drwife #doctorhusband #marriedtomedicine #married2med #doctorlife #doctorclothing #doctorstyle #doctorwifelife
Double tap if you love having your physician spouse home 🏡 with you 🤍. Hopefully this is encouraging - doctor wife life means lots of time alone. This doesn’t just end with residency! But, attending life IS different and this is just one of the small ways 🤍 #doctorlife #physicianlife #doctorwife #doctorhusband #infectiousdiseasedoctors #infectiousdiseasespecialist #doctorfamily #attendingphysician #doctorwifey #doctor
When all you want is your man to be home! Doctor wife life means they’re waiting on patients, you’re waiting on them. #drwife #marriedtomedicine #marriedtomed #medlife #doctor Ali M. Rida, MD
Which doctor’s wife are you?! 😴 like a baby during night call OR 🔪 hide something under your pillow and jump at every sound? #doctorwifelife #medwife #doctorswifelife #marriedtomed #marriedtodoctors #married2med #doctorwife #doctorwifelife
