Summary In this conversation, Dr. Jenn Gates-Nassar shares her journey as a pediatric resident, balancing the demands of her medical training with motherhood. She discusses her motivations for pursuing medicine, the challenges of being a resident with young children, and the emotional toll of caring for sick kids. Dr. Gates-Nassar also highlights the importance of advocacy in public health, the impact of adverse childhood experiences on long-term health, and the challenges posed by misinforma...
In this episode we catch up with Dr. Lauren Puretz from episode 33. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, I would suggest listening to that episode first. In this episode we talk about: - How Lauren's practice has been doing since opening 8/2024. We last spoke when she was 2 months in and there have been some bumps in the road - How her running career has been going. Also, a few bumps. - Feeling a bit like she was in the hole and how she's been digging herself out - and so much more! &...
Summary In this conversation, Dr. Janelle Nassim shares her journey as a dermatologist and a mother, detailing her experience with a life-altering heart attack caused by a coronary artery dissection (SCAD) shortly after the birth of her second child. She discusses the symptoms leading up to the event, her hospital experience, and the emotional and physical recovery process. Janelle reflects on the changes in her perspective towards life, motherhood, and work, emphasizing the importance of...
summary In this conversation, Dr. Tali Lando shares her journey as a pediatric ENT and a mother of three daughters. She discusses the challenges of balancing a demanding medical career with motherhood, the importance of support systems, and the evolution of parenting dynamics as children grow. Dr. Lando reflects on her experiences with burnout, the role of passion projects in rejuvenating her career, and the lessons learned from her journey through cancer treatment. She emphasizes the signi...
Picking up where we left off from the last solo episode. This one goes into everything from initial diagnosis leading up to starting treatment. Thanks for listening Support the show
keywords career transitions, parenting, work-life balance, family dynamics, health journey, personal experiences, professional choices, future planning, medical education, lung transplantation summary In this conversation, Ali and Kashi reconnect after two years to discuss Kashi's recent transition to faculty in lung transplantation, her family's dynamics, and the impact of Anika's health journey on their lives. They explore themes of work-life balance, career aspirations, and the emotion...
Summary In this episode, Dr. Joyce Park shares her journey as a board-certified dermatologist and social media influencer, discussing her unique path into teledermatology and the challenges of balancing motherhood with her career. She reflects on the evolution of her practice, the importance of social media in driving patient engagement, and the realities of outsourcing childcare. Dr. Park emphasizes the need for women to redefine success and not be afraid to take non-traditional paths in the...
"Because then I had to go back to residency, and I could have quit but I didn't want to. I was feeling better, but going back as a brand new first time mom - breastfeeding, not sleeping, all the things - was so much easier than going through residency with depression." This episode is with Dr. Padget Skogman who is a board certified pediatrician. In this episode we talk about: - Dealing with depression in residency - The disconnect between what her program director thought was an appropriat...
Solo episode today sharing a big secret I've been keeping (I promise this isn't click bait) and everything leading up to my cancer diagnosis. Thank you for listening xoxo Support the show
"It’s really just an extension of the general ethos in medicine which has existed for a very long time – generations, centuries - which says that in order to make other people well we have to make ourselves sick. That is only recently being questioned. " This episode is with Dr. Suzanne Koven who was a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital for over 30 years, has had a prolific literaray career and now serves as the Writer in Residence of Massachusetts General Hospital ful...
"I think we're so geared on the next step - what do I have to do next, I need to complete this before I get to the next step, then this will make me happy. I think we're constantly doing that to ourselves and we don't even know what happy means or what we wanted. My husband and I sat down, we were at Red Robins getting french firies and burgers, and we looked at each other and were like 'Is this what we worked our whole lives to be? This is not great. This is not that fun'." This episode is...
"That was the moment where I almost quit. That was my pivotal moment. We saw so many people die as a level 1 trauma center so there was so much emotional baggage that we carry as doctors through that, but I never faltered. It was always 'this is what I want to do, this is what I was born to do,' and that moment when I was verbally attacked at this grand rounds, that questioned everything to me about my choices in neurosurgery." This episode is with Dr. Sheri Dewan, a board certified neurosu...
"I got in a lot of trouble and so I will never forget my attending said you will never keep the lights on if you practice like that." This episode is with Dr. Lauren Hughes who is a primary care pediatrician in Kansas City. In this episode we talk about: - Having kids in residency and how this might have been the worst time to have kids but there's also no good time - Having a baby intern year and then having twins in March 2020, a few months before she was going to finish residency and s...
" I remember I was working a morning shift and it was 7 or 730 and I remember exactly where I am because I have a spatial memory and I was in between these two rooms. One had a STEMI and I was trying to get him to the cath lab, the other had a stroke I was trying to administer tpa and I get a phone call and the nanny is calling out." This episode is with Dr. Camie Sorenson who is an Emergency Medicine physician in Fresno, California. In this episode we talk about: - Meeting her husb...
I answer some listener questions in this episode including: - My journey through med school, residenc, fellowship into being an attending - The specifics of my current job - What it's like training and raising a family in Boston - If I ever feel guilty about choosing medicine as a mom - Expectations vs reality - what I hold onto and what I let go - Best time to have a baby - Using a financial planner - Self doubt as a new attending - Dealing with childhood illness - Balancing things with spo...
"I had Ethan when I was a fourth year resident and then my younger son, Lane, I had as a first year attending. Both of them were NICU babies. They were both preterm delivieries, both had quite a number of complications and even more prominent a memory than the experience in the ICU was that desire to avoid being a burden to your colleagues." This episode is with Dr. Erika Rangel, who is a trauma and critical care surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. We discuss: - Parental leave polici...
"For some reason we were taught that if we were good at our jobs we could do it and never be affected by it. I don't know who told us that but that was stupid." This episode is with Dr. Jessi Gold, who is a psychiatrist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the Chief Wellness Office for the University of Tennesse System. In this episode we talk about: - Her memoir "How Do You Feel" - The decision to share her story - Changing the culture in medicine to allow us to be hum...
"I am proud of myself for everything I've overcome but I also think it's ridiculous some of the sutff I had to go through to get here and I think some of it made me a better person and I think some of it was just bad to go through." This episode is with Dr. Cornelia Griggs, who is a pediatric surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. In this episode we talk about: - Her memoir "The Sky was Falling" about her time working in NYC during the pandemic - Finding out her husband was sick shortl...
"Now in this day and age of electronic everything, people can message you all the time. So if you're not willing to say these are the times I'm willing to be available for work and these are the times I'm not, you could be working 24/7. There's this paradigm of inbox zero but even when you get to inbox zero you turn off your computer, theres' something that's in there again. So inbox zero really only happens if you leave your job or all your patients die. So it's sort of just growing your t...
"I've hit the point of burnout multiple times in my life. Most recently it was after I started my coaching business. So I was working full time as a primary care outaptient physician and I was coaching my clients on my admin half day and weekends. I realized that what was burning me out was medicine post-pandemic. I just couldn't do it anymore and it took me a while to recognize why I was feeling the way I was feeling. So I took some time to self-reflect. Actually a year ago in August I took ...