The Medical Marriage

Over the 4th of July weekend we were at one of the attending's houses. He is getting ready to retire after many years as an OB/GYN. He is married (to his first and only wife) and has several grown children. Just as we were getting ready to leave his wife pulled me aside and handed me a book. She said that she had read the first addition many years ago and this addition that came out a few years ago and it helps.

The Medical Marriage is a book by Wayne Sotile and his wife Mary Sotile. Neither are physicians but both have worked with physician couples for many years. I had heard of this book before but have never read it. I love to read and spend a lot of time during the summers reading. I figured this summer sounded like a great time to read this book as well.

Some of you may have already read this book, have this book but have not read it, or have never heard of this book. I thought I would see if anyone else wants to have an online bookclub of sorts while reading this book. We can use the discussion forum for our chats or we can divide the chapters up and write posts about what we thought when we read them and use comments to discuss.

The book stresses the importance of having the physician spouse to read the book and complete the quizzes as well. My husband has agreed (begrudgingly) after we talked about how it only really works if we are both on the same page. We will see when he actually reads the chapter. Either way I am happy to post a few times as I go through the chapters but would really really like someone else to talk about what I read with. I have to tell you that even just reading the first few pages was very sobering. For the same reason I like this blog (to know that it is not just us, that it is really hard, that there is more stress, etc, etc) the book is reassuring and helpful to me. Let me know what you think.