A physician’s Mother’s Day gift: reclaimed time with my children — and for myself
As a child, I fondly remember running through the kids’ aisle at Video World with my younger brother. We were excited to pick out VHS tapes for our family to watch over the weekend. I don’t recall whether this was every weekend or once a month, but movie nights were frequent enough that they made up for my parents’ repeated absences in those years.
My family had recently relocated from England to America, and my mother and father, both doctors, were working hard to find footing for us in a new country. As foreign-trained physicians, they had to study for U.S. medical licensure exams and redo elements of their medical training. These obligations often took them away from home.
