7. Premature babies, partner roles, and pump supplies with Dr. Ritika Parris

05/25/23 • 53 min

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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6. Choosing your mosaic tiles with Dr. Daniele Olveczky

"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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8. Pivoting from researcher to academic clinician with Dr. Angie Frank

"What do you want to do with your life, you know? I mean what are you really happy doing and is it worth doing something that you don't love every single morning."
On this week's episode I talk with Dr. Angie Frank about how she decided she didn't want to do research anymore and what it looked like to make that change, discovering that it is possible to be an academic clinician, how she feels about promotion, and having the freedom to do what you want to do,
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