Meghan Rothenberger
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439 appearances
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard Feb 2024
Meghan Rothenberger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's 4 a.m.
on a very cold and dark January morning, and I'm sitting in my pajamas in front of my computer, desperately trying to finish a research abstract by a 3 p.m.
deadline.
I've been working on this abstract for weeks, but have embarrassingly little to show for the hours I've put in.
And this morning is no different.
I can't write.
So I'm staring out the window at a streetlight on our corner.
It's shining down on a nice blanket of freshly fallen snow.
And the familiar thoughts start to come.
How have I tricked so many smart people into thinking I know what I'm doing?
I know nothing about research.
I don't think I know anything about being a doctor either.
I use up-to-date like every day and I'm an attending.
Stop, Megan, focus.
I shift in my seat but I can't get comfortable because my butt hurts.
And my butt hurts because I'm in the middle of a cycle of IVF and I had a bad reaction to one of the injectable medications and it made my butt swell up and turn red like one of those embarrassing primates you see at the zoo.
And thinking about my baboon butt and IVF makes me think about what a bad mom I am.
I have a three-year-old conceived after years of trying.
But I'm not the kind of mom I thought I'd be.
I'm too busy.
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