Rakhee K. Bhayani, MD, is a professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at Duke University. She completed her internal medicine residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University School of Medicine. She is a founding member and director of the Forum for Women in Medicine, a professional development initiative established in 2014 that organizes skill-building events for women trainees in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Bhayani has a passion for well-being, effective social media use for physicians, and gender equity and has presented workshops, lectures, and grand rounds on these topics both regionally and nationally

What Happens When Medicine Stops Being the Most Important Thing in Your Life?
For physicians, allowing medicine to move down the list can feel strangely like failure. Perhaps that says something about the profession we were trained to enter.






