SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! A first year general surgery resident slid into my DMs after our previous episode on how GHANA MADE ME BETTER. She’d been following the show for almost 10 years, and she had one question: “How can I best start preparing for global surgery, especially in places like Ghana?” That question deserved more than a simple reply. It deserved an entire episode. So I’m sharing what I’ve learned from 14 years of human...
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! In just a few days, we leave for Ghana, and this year, our boys are coming with us. This is our 14th year doing humanitarian work at KNUST University Hospital in Kumasi with International Healthcare Volunteers. Before we board that plane, we’re talking about what humanitarian medicine actually looks like. Not the Instagram version. The real version. You’ll hear: What International Healthcare Volunteers act...
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! We got married in our thirties. Started IVF in the middle of paying off $700,000 in student loan debt. And Nii was working locums shifts several states away — the very thing funding our fertility journey was also making it harder. This is the episode we've never been able to fully tell. Until now. You'll hear: → Why we got married later — and what that cost us biologically → The rule we made when pay...
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Nearly 50,000 people watched our co-parenting reel and asked the same question: "Why don't you just get a nanny?" People expected us to have full-time help. We don't. Not because we can't afford it. Because we made a different choice. In this episode, Nii and Renee pull back the curtain on the real systems, the real schedule, and the real financial trade-offs behind running a two-physician household with t...
SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! You didn't match. Now what? Every year, roughly 7% of U.S. medical students don't match into residency. If you're one of them, you're not alone—and this isn't the end. Reddit Question We're Answering: "M4 here. Didn't match into the only specialty I cared about. No backup plan. Would it be insane to just get off the hamster wheel? Years of sacrifice, crushing debt, and the light at the end of the tunnel is...