Medicine – Analise Douglas

Gifts for Friends in Healthcare

Posted on November 28, 2024November 24, 2024 by Analise

As the holidays come around, some of the hardest people to buy things for are your friends who are doctors, nurses, medical assistants, and other women in the healthcare field.

Here are some ideas for gifts that they will love.

For use at work:

Stethoscope

Some of you may say, why would my cardiologist friend need another stethoscope? Well, fun fact, we have stethoscopes but we also lose them a lot because we are running around the hospital. No one will ever regret having at least 1 spare.

Here are some of my faves.

2. New personalized scrubs

A lot of us are constantly in scrubs during the day. I wear scrubs any day I MAY be called into a case, which means I can never have enough of them. Comfy scrubs that have their name on them? Love it over here.

Here’s the link for the top.

Here’s the link for the bottom.

3. Clogs but better

I used to wear sneakers to work, but fun fact, blood does not come out of them easily or well. Enter clogs. I wipe these bad boys off every so often and leave them at work.

Here’s the link to amazon for these clogs.

4. Goggles/ Lead glasses

Again, a lot of exposures at work, won’t regret getting a new pair of these. For the ones who are constantly exposed to radiation, I have included some lead glasses 🙂

Here’s the link to the lead glasses.

5. Scrub Caps/Headbands

My personal favorites I have included below and for some people who want to add a little pizzaz to the bouffants from the hospital, there are also these cute headbands.

Here’s the link for the headbands.

Here’s the link for the scrub caps.

For Relaxation/Home

Candles

Something about making your entire home smell good really does well to destress. There are some really nice inexpensive ones that I get regularly from Target.

Here’s the link for the candles.

2. Shower bombs

For the same people who love the aromatherapy vibes I’m giving.

Here’s the link for shower bombs.

3. Journals/Pens

I love journals and have found that journaling is a great way to mitigate burnout. Some ideas- giving a nice journal without some pens or give some less expensive journals with pens.

Here’s the link to less expensive but still great journal.

Here’s the link to more expensive journal.

Here’s the link to some great pens.

4. Three minute makeup kit

Something for your friends who have to deal with the overnight call and having to do grand rounds in the morning. I personally love TLB’s set and use it all the time.

Here’s the link to TLB’s easy beauty bundle.

I am not an affiliate of any of these brands and I get no commissions. These are literally things I just love that I would personally give to my own friends.

Hope this helps you as you shop for Christmas gifts! Merry Christmas

Love you guys,

Lise

2024 Updates

Posted on January 1, 2024January 1, 2024 by Analise

Hey y’all!

It has been so long since I have posted here, but I am really excited about making this a more active part of my life in 2024.

So, I just wanted to post a couple of updates:

I am halfway done with my interventional year! *Crowd goes wild*
I have a job next year! More about this later 🙂

That’s it for now – literally a couple of updates.

I will have another post for my word of the year and my goal setting for 2024, but I thought it would be good to start by just starting and posting this on my blog today.

Anyway, I hope you guys are doing great!

I am thrilled about this next chapter and I will be sharing the things that I am learning along the way. I am going to keep posting about the things I have always cared about – Family, Faith, Lifestyle, and Medicine but I am hoping to add a couple more topics in there intermittently.

That’s all for now! Talk soon.

Love,

Lise

The 4 AM Club

Posted on December 30, 2022January 6, 2023 by Analise

Good morning everyone!

It’s Lise here, live from my house for the early, early morning show.

I have loved mornings for a long time, I’d say almost 7 years now. It all started when I was studying for STEP 2. I would wake up at a regular time in the morning and get started with studying – no distractions. But then by the time that afternoon hit, my energy would wane and it would always would be near impossible to get back to my studying groove. *Cue the chopped and screwed version of Lets Groove Tonight*

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Why I Chose Cardiology

Posted on August 28, 2022January 6, 2023 by Analise

Also, you can add a comma here for comedic relief- Why, Cardiology?

Anyway, its just the best. I didn’t say this in interview season, but I am often amazed at how much I love this field and how cool I think it is.

Cardiology is one of the fields of internal medicine that is just so broad. Though people in residency made it seem like only one type of person goes into cardiology, I am pushing back against that, because it’s just not true.

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Practical Tips for Intern Year

Posted on July 1, 2022August 22, 2022 by Analise

July 1 is here! You’ve likely started your first job as a doctor and you are scared (petrified).

Some VERY normal questions that may be going through your mind…

How do I write notes again?

Where is the bathroom on this floor?

Will there be lunch at this lecture?

All of these were questions that were swirling through my mind as I entered my 3rd week of residency (recall that I had 2 weeks on night float to start out).

I have some practical things that I would share with myself if I could do it all over again.

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30’s the new 30

Posted on February 25, 2022February 27, 2022 by Analise

During this fine black history month, your girl turned 30.

I, too, can’t believe it. It’s as if the perpetually “young” one can’t be called young anymore, technically.

I suddenly get to giggle when people card me.

I have a husband, a child, a mortgage, taxes, a couple gray hairs, extra letters behind my name, etc, etc.

I can now say to my child a variety of black mom phrases, including, but not limited to, “Don’t you see grown folks talking?”

In some seriousness, I do want to take some time and reflect on how I have had to let go of what the 16 year old me imagined 30 year old me to be like. I have been having a lot of convos with my friends about this transition, so thank you guys for processing this with me. That 16 year old Lise had a lot of expectations and she was pretty hard to please.

If I could talk to that young lady, I would probably tell her a couple of things about her future life.

Marriage is different than I thought it would be. I mean this in the best way. I didn’t realize that relationships require this amount of love, vulnerability, and selflessness. I don’t think that 16 year old me could have fathomed that marriage meant that I would need to love in the same way I want to be loved. I definitely could not have imagined the wonderful person that I married. I could not have dreamt him up EVER.
Motherhood is not just having a cute baby perched on my lap at all times. I never really thought it was that, but I could not have understood all of the things that my little girl needs from me. Kudos to those of you who had babies in their teen years! You get flowers, so many flowers. Also, “Snapping back” is actually a societal expectation that will grab you by your neck and have you asking your body, “What’s wrong with you and why have you forsaken me?” After it grew a whole human for 9 months. Side note – thank you, body. You have done a wonderful thing.
In my career, I didn’t expect to still be in training (seriously, it has been a LONG journey). I will admit, though, I was just getting the inkling that I would want to pursue medicine as a career at 16. I was definitely not one of those people that knew they wanted to be a doctor from the age of 4.
Friendships are a lot more complex than my poor 16 year old brain could handle. When you’re not in high school anymore and proximity friendships are ever changing (especially when you are moving all over the country constantly like I am), you realize that though you have love for all those people, people will weave in and out of your life during different times and that’s ok. You’ll learn from people you’ve met, make memories with them, and sometimes move on. Thank God for both types of friends- the long haul friendships as well as the transient ones.
Faith is what ties it all together and makes me see beauty in all of the change that has happened since I was 16. I love what God is doing here with me and I’m encouraged that there is purpose and a plan here.

So, thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! I had so much chocolate cake and got lovely flowers and spent time with people I love.

Love,

30 year old Lise

Microaggressions in Medicine

Posted on July 31, 2020December 24, 2020 by Analise

Microaggression- “a statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group such as a racial or ethnic minority.” (From Oxford Dictionary)

Before I took my graduation picture for medical school, the photographer said, “And what do you call that hairstyle? Do you need to fix your hair or something?”

I was wearing my hair in the puff that I had grown so fond of during my then 7 years of being natural. That day, my hair had made the most glorious puff in its own history.

This guy jumped in and made me feel small while I should have been celebrating one of the greatest achievements of my life.

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#ScrollLessReadMore

Posted on May 29, 2020December 24, 2020 by Analise

2019 was a great year. I realize that I am saying that in the midst of Corona2020, when the world fell apart.

It was also the year that I adopted the phrase that is the title of this post. #ScrollLessReadMore

Back in 2018, I noticed how much time I was spending in my phone and not really getting any enjoyment from it. I know that I don’t look in my phone for anything but entertainment, but it really didn’t even do that for me. I was doing the zombie scroll and the time would just drift away from me. At some point, I asked myself, “If I was reading a book all the times I was scrolling through my phone, how many books would I be reading?” This led to me doing some strange things, like sitting in the ICU when I had a spare 5 minutes and reading, reading all day on my days off, and reading a book while walking. Hey, we do it all the time with our phones, right?

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