The Continuity and Connection: A Doctor Couple’s Unique Journey in Patient Care

My favorite thing about being married to another doctor is that between our two specialties, we get a lot of continuity of patients who go between the two of us. My husband and I met in medical school. We were anatomy lab partners. It’s very cute to fall in love over a cadaver, but now he’s a family medicine doctor and I’m an OBGYN. The best thing about family medicine is that you really can take care of whole families and take care of people from the beginning of their lives all the way to the end. Because we both work for the same hospital system, we have patients who can go between us easily. So, for example, today, I had a patient who used to be my husband’s patient, and then she got pregnant and she became our patient. Then we took care of her during her pregnancy. I just got to deliver her baby, and now my husband’s gonna take care of the baby after the discharge from the hospital. Especially when you work for large hospital systems, it’s really hard to have continuity with your patients and also with other physicians. And this has been a way that we have both been able to take care of whole families and is the reason that I went into medicine. I really wanted to take care of people and their families. And I just think it’s so special that between me and my husband, we get to just take Care of the whole family