9. Congenital cancer with Dr. Kashi Goyal

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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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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10. 1st OBGYN guest! Dr. Celeste Royce

"Our lives are different than men in medicine in so many ways, and it has to do with being female and all of the reproductive burden that is put on us because of that."
We talk about:
- Having a baby as the only female physician in a private practice
- Feeling ostracized
- The challenges of treating pregnant women while pregnant
- Her husband choosing to stay home to raise the kids
- Having adult children go through illness
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