On Being an Underemployed Physician Caring for a Child with Mental Health Issues
Judi Casey February 10th, 2009
I just read a poignant interview about one women’s struggle to maintain employment while raising a child with mental health issues. Written by Rose-Anne Clermont for the Women’s International Perspective, Living “One Day at a Time” in the Economic Crisis: The New Face of America’s Middle Class describes how a physician and single parent, Pierrette, becomes unemployed and on Medicaid when her son is diagnosed with bi-polar disorder at age 9. She is currently working at a coffee shop where she will be eligible for health insurance once she has sufficient tenure.
The article mentions Julie Rosenzweig who we recently interviewed for the December 2008 Network News with Eileen Brennan on Work-Life Integration and Children’s Mental Health. For more about this topic, see our Topic Page, Encyclopedia Entry, and Fact Sheet. WIP has three more stories on disability issues.
