Welcome to Red Lips White Coat, my personal blog. I am Dr. Elizabeth Lee Mizelle, a full-time physician, and part-time blogger. I spend most of my days caring for my patients. My off duty hours are spent indulging in many random musings that bring me a different type of fulfillment. This blog was started as a creative outlet for me in 2015. I…
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Hello, Buda! I have just returned home from an amazing time in Eastern Europe. My 5 friends and I traveled to Budapest, Prague and Vienna. Did I have fun? Yes! Would I ever go back there again? Well, yes and no. Yes, all three places were magical in their own right. The trip was 8 days and we managed to…
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It was a beautiful Saturday morning in Texas. I wore my brightest dress for the Houston Children’s Festival. I came prepared with water bottle, juice, an apple, pistachios and a greek yogurt, which easily fills me up. I conducted vision screens and measured heights and weights. So there I was standing in the hot blazing sun checking kids eyes until I felt I…
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I am a late bloomer in every aspect of the phrase. And last weekend I lost my Vegas Virginity. I went to Vegas for the first time for my annual medical convention. I am 32 and have spent the first 31 years in school or intense training of some sort. On the off times in medical school I was usually…
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Gone are the days of the obligatory 2 week and 2 month vacations we all had during spring/winter and summer. Unless you are fortunate enough to work in education, you stopped having those built-in vacays way back in college. During my tenure as a medical student, I did have breaks after each “System Block” and we had something like an…
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