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Jenny Beck-Esmay, Dara Kass and Stacey Poznanski tell the story of FemInEM and celebrate women in Emergency Medicine. Jenny shares the story of Casey Drawert, a doctor who was tragically shot to death by her husband. This incident opened the discussion regarding how common domestic violence in physician relationships is. In response to this incident, Esther Choo wrote "Intimate partner violence, a physician mother and our call to action" for FemInEM. Esther's post garnered a lot of attention and led to numerous women and physicians to come forward with their story of violence. Dara talks about an incident regarding changing gender dynamics that led to the birth of FemInEM. A female physician received a call from her son' s school when he missed his class. This was despite the primary contact being specified as the stay-at-home father. This incident motivated the formation of FemInEM. Even though there are multiple women organisations, women seldom know what is happening beyond the boundaries of such organisat