First, Eat Your Frog: And Other Pearls for Professional Working Mothers

FIRST, EAT YOUR FROG is a meticulously referenced book presenting eight lessons (or "pearls") learned by a successful woman in medicine--Dr. Elizabeth Kagan Arleo. Benefits to the reader include improved work-life integration; more easeful relationships at work with colleagues and at home with family; better time management in both spheres; and core tenets for thriving as a professional working mother.The chapters cover eight key lessons the author has learned in her ongoing journey as a mother of three, practicing physician, and editor-in-chief of Clinical Imaging, including: 1. Eat your frog 2. 168 hours--you have more time that you think 3. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail 4. Remember the pre-meeting meeting 5. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good 6. Stop over-apologizing 7. It doesn't hurt to ask politely 8. Have a growth mindset In FIRST, EAT YOUR FROG, Dr. Arleo gives ample credit to the authors and mentors who inspired the lessons and provides explicit guidance -- and highly entertaining stories -- to help readers move toward less overwhelm and more work-life balance.

Dr. Elizabeth Kagan Arleo is a Professor of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Attending Radiologist at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. In 2019, she served as the President of the American Association for Women in Radiology (AAWR). Sh is also the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Clinical Imaging.Dr. Arleo has received multiple honors and awards, including the 2017 Laurie H. Glimcher M.D. Award for Excellence in Mentoring Women Faculty from Weill Cornell, the 2018 Distinguished Educator Award from the NY Roentgen Society, and the 2022 Alice Ettinger Distinguished Achievement Award recognizing lifetime achievements and lasting contributions to radiology from the AAWR.Dr. Arleo considers her greatest professional legacy to be her compassionate care of patients and her advocacy for improved family/medical leave in radiology. Personally, she is also a mother of three, and a writer and runner. First, Eat Your Frog: And Other Pearls for Professional Working Mothers is her first book.