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Moms of Medicine

Moms of Medicine

Alison Trainor

Stories from the women physicians who have paved the way and those who are in the thick of it now. Hosted by Dr. Alison Trainor

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Moms of Medicine episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Moms of Medicine for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Moms of Medicine episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

"We both knew that one of us would need to be able to still be a default parent and I actually wanted that role, which I'm sure we'll talk about it's also very hard to be a default parent and a doctor, but that was sort of the thing I didn't want to give up when I went into medicine."
This episode is with Dr. Molly Brett, a primary care physician in Colorado.
We talk about:
- Deciding early on that she wanted to be a primary care doctor for multiple reasons
- Being in a dual physician family
- Being the default parent and wanting this role
- Camping with babies
- Negotiating a part-time job that allows her to be truly part time so that she can go off grid and go camping with her family
- The guilt around hiring a nanny to help her family in the mornings
- How she chooses which projects to say yes to and which ones to say no to
- Choosing the daycare that works for your lives (i.e. long hours) and not the most "fancy" childcare
- How to advise women to choose a specialty/career that works for them
Connect with Moms of Medicine:
- Instagram @moms_of_medicine
- [email protected]

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"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 tolerance - I'm not going to check things between this time and this time, I'm not going to look on the weekends, I'm not going to check on vacation. It's like, are you allowed to say that? It's like sacrelig, but I think that's an example of setting a boundary around your time - when you will and won't answer pages, when you will or wont take extra shifts, if you're willing to do unpaid work. You just really have to decide."
This episode is with Dr. Karen Leitner, who is a physician coach based in Massachusetts.
In this episode we talk about:
- Working full time vs part time
- Setting boundaries with the electronic medical record (i.e. how to not always be tending to your inbox)
- Taking care of patients in the age of open charts
- Mom guilt
- Burnout
- Mental health concerns
- Negotiating for yourself
- Transitioning out of clinical medicine
Connect with Moms of Medicine:
- Instagram @moms_of_medicine
- [email protected]
Connect with Karen:
- www.karenleitnermd.com
- Instagram @karenleitnermd

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Moms of Medicine - 11. Adoption and Global Health with Dr. Beth Riviello
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09/01/23 • 42 min

"I remember so distinctly we were in Rwanda, I came back from a run, and my husband was like sitting on the chair looking shell shocked, and he said 'uhh you need to read this email'. And it was an email that said 159 children have been released from The Congo and yours is one of them. Please come get him"
This episode's conversation is with Dr. Beth Riviello, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
We talk about:
- The decision to adopt
- International and domestic adoption experiences
- How different her two adoptions were
- Having a career in globale health
- The moment she met her sons and felt like their mom
- The ongoing bonding process
- Advocating for fair leave for adoptive and non-birth parents
- Having a quarterly check-in with herself
- Making time to pray and run
And so much more!
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Contact:
- [email protected]
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Moms of Medicine - 9. Congenital cancer with Dr. Kashi Goyal
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06/22/23 • 44 min

"I just felt like, in that moment, I can't move forward in being a physician. Because you know to be honest I was fixated on her mortality, and I really thought I can't exist in my old life, you know, after this."
On this week's episode I talk with Dr. Kashi Goyal, a pulmonary and critical care fellow at Ohio State University, about her experience having her daughter Anika who was born with a congenital rhabdomyosarcoma. We talk about wanting to quit medicine, her decision to go back, what it was like being a trainee having a daughter at home who was going through chemotherapy, how the COVID19 pandemic made things even more challenging and complicated, and how today she and her family are thriving and profoundly happy.

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This week I'm joined by Dr. Ritika Parris who is a primary care physician and head of GME wellness at BIDMC in Boston. We cover so much in this coversation from having her two babies prematurely, navigating roles and jobs with her partner who is also a physician, the mentors she had looking out for her along the way, and what she had to do when she was working an overnight in a community hospital without a maternity ward and she forgot her pump supples.
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"It has been just the absolute joy and privilege of my life to see how institutions can change and how we can change the institutions that we love...that we are not just here to put the stethoscope on the chest of a patient. We are here to change the future of medicine"
In this conversation with Dr. Daniele Olveczky we talk:
- C-sections and complications
- Going back to work 6 weeks after her baby was born
- Why she chooses to be a nocturnist
- What it means to be in charge of your own mosaic
- What drives her to stay in academic medicine
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"We have this whole other life outside of the hospital where we may or may not identify as being a physician, and either way I think that's ok. Some people feel like medicine is their calling and they're a doctor at home and a doctor at work. And there are other people who are like I love being a physician and I'm a physician at work but I'm a mom at home and I'm a friend and I'm another person. Maybe we just focus on the physician part, and we have been forced to confront mental healh=th but we really haven't had to confront this idea of having a family in residency in the same way."
In this episode we talk about:
-Having kids in medical school
-Taking leave from medical school after her first child and having to describe how she spent this time while on residency interviews
-The perception that taking time off means you aren't dedicated or it will set you back
-The isolation of being a parent
-Figuring out how to make pumping work when she was told that previously residents hadn't been successful at pumping
-Seeking out advice from various sources
-Being helped out by her colleagues and paying it forward
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"Within the span of an hour and a half our lives had gone from I'll be back in 90 minutes to go in and do my surgeries and move on, to we're having a girl let's celebrate, and then we're holding hands just with our hearts in our throat"
This episode is with Dr. Liliana Camison, a plastic surgeon and craniofacial surgery fellow at NYU
We talk about:
- Late pregnancy loss and deciding on termination
- Having her rainbow baby
- Fellowhsip interviews with an 8 week old baby and her mom in tow
- She and her husband making the decision to do a year apart so that she could do fellowship
- Living in NYC with her parents and her baby while her husband lives in Pittsburgh
and so much more!
Follow Liliana:
-instagram @lilianacamison
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- Instagram
Contact:
- [email protected]

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"The big bottom line, ok, this is the big bottom line - young moms and women in general we are so self critcal and we are so down on ourselves, and I could practically cry just thinking about this because it's so unneeeded. We're as smart as the guys, we're as committed as they are, we probably work harder in certain ways. Women do a lot of unpaid work. And so we have no reason to feel bad about ourselves, but I know when I was a young mom, you're so insecure. What happens though, I think when you get around 35 or 40, you're just like "who cares what people think". You can't even worry about that. As long as you're comfortable, your partner, your conscience, your family, that's what matters."
In this episode Dr. Deborah Gomez Kwolek shares her experience with:
- Having a baby during her intern year in 1987 and how she barely survived that year
- Having to take time away from residency training when she had her 2 first kids
- Sharing a residency spot with another woman who had a baby in residency (she needed to heavily advocate for herself to make this happen)
- Going on to have 7 children
- Taking several years away from medicine midway through her career, and then coming back
- Supporting young moms now that she is more senior
Join the SGIM Women and Medicine Commission's workgroup on parenting
"Pregnancy and Residency- Overdue for Equity" published in NEJM March 11, 2023
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"It sounds easy but it's really hard when you've worked this hard to be a physician to say 'oh I'm gonna do a little less'. What I've realized is that myself and I think maybe some listeners out there might resonate with, we often feel like our productivity and our value to society is based on how many procedures we do, patients we see, hours we put in. Usually I would be the first one there and the last one to leave and you know we wear it kind of as a badge of honor, but over time that narrative in our head can really lead to burnout."
This episode is with Dr. Shanika Esparaz, a board certified ophthalmologist and welness coach for women in healthcare.
In the first half of the episode we discuss Shani's personal experiences:
- Her experience with burnout and the unexpected ways it showed up for her
- The pivotal moment where her daughter was injured in the care of their nanny and how this made her re-evaluate everything
- Her experience getting a coah (it was great!) and how this inspired her to become a coach herself
- Getting a coach and then became a coach herself
In the second half of the episode (starting at 25:00), Shani puts her coaching hat on and gives some invaluable advice for those of you who may struggle with any of the following:
- Recognizing burnout in yourself
- Realizing you may be burnt out but being frustrated by the fact that it's your work environment that's the problem and not you
- Feeling like taking care of yourself is just one more thing to add to your plate that you don't have time for
- The factors to consider when thinking of switching to part time
- Getting started journaling (can be so quick but so beneficial!)
- Detaching your worth from things outside of yourself like productivity, promotions, etc.
- Performing a time audit
- and so much more!
Connect with Moms of Medicine:
- Instagram @moms_of_medicine
- [email protected]
Connect with Dr. Shanika Esparaz:
- Website
- Doctorgoals podcast episode on setting up a direct care practice
- @shani_esparazmd on instagram

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How many episodes does Moms of Medicine have?

Moms of Medicine currently has 44 episodes available.

What topics does Moms of Medicine cover?

The podcast is about Parenting, Kids & Family and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Moms of Medicine?

The episode title '13. Orthopedic Surgery Residency Baby with Dr. Eileen Colliton' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Moms of Medicine?

The average episode length on Moms of Medicine is 46 minutes.

How often are episodes of Moms of Medicine released?

Episodes of Moms of Medicine are typically released every 14 days.

When was the first episode of Moms of Medicine?

The first episode of Moms of Medicine was released on Mar 2, 2023.

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