September is Women In Medicine month! This year we decided to highlight some of the incredible female physicians that have appeared on the Prosperous Doc® podcast. We are grateful to them for sharing their stories of inspiration, insights into what they do, and medical expertise with our audience.
First up, we are featuring Shikha Jain, MD. Dr. Shikha Jain is a board-certified hematology and oncology physician. She is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Illinois Cancer Center in Chicago. In addition, she is the Director of Communication Strategies in Medicine and the Associate Director of Oncology Communication & Digital Innovation.
She joined us in March 2020 to share her personal stories on the challenges she has faced from medical school to residency and as a practicing doctor that she mistakenly thought were unique to herself. In addition, she also discusses the direct correlation between the improvement of women's healthcare as more female doctors advance as leaders in the field.
Listen to the full episode here.
The second doctor we are featuring is Dr. Errin Weisman, DO. She is a physician, life coach, podcaster, burnout expert, and fierce advocate for wellness in medicine. She appeared on our podcast in June of 2020.
In Episode 20, Dr. Weisman explores the benefits of physician coaching for coping with the unique issues facing medical practitioners today. She shares her journey in becoming a coach and how difficult days fueled her passion for coaching. And she goes on to examine the surge in demand for professional and life coaching in the medical industry, as more discover this as a valuable tool.
Listen to the full episode here.
The following physician we are featuring is Dr. Gail Gazelle, MD. MCC. She is a physician coach on the Harvard Medical Faculty and an author. Dr. Gazelle was a guest on our podcast in October of 2020.
In this episode (29), Dr. Gazelle shares her personal experience of chancing upon mindfulness coaching and the benefits she reaped from the process, "[i]t helped me work with my inner workings, getting to know them more. And I felt a sense of almost leapfrogging forward with some of the things that had held me back. So I was inspired to become a coach."
Listen to the full episode here.
The fourth doctor we are highlighting is Dr. Janelle White, MHCM, FAAP. She is the Specialty Medical Director of Community Health at Atrium Health and the Pediatric Regional Medical Director at Atrium Health Levine Children's University Pediatrics in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. White appeared as a guest on the podcast in July 2021.
In Episode 44, Dr. White shares how and why she became a leader outside the exam room, what to do about the health inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and why she went back to school to earn her master's in Healthcare Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Listen to the full episode here.
Fifth, we feature Dr. Jillian Bybee, MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Director of Quality and Safety for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Spectrum Health. She was a guest on the podcast in April 2021.
In this episode (41), she discusses what it took to address her work-related burnout finally. She details the experience that opened her eyes to needing help and why overcoming her shame and confiding in her husband was the first step she needed to get professional help.
Through her own self-care journey, Dr. Bybee discovered all the cultural issues that cause medical professionals to avoid therapy — including the idea that they must be strong "superheroes" for everyone else. Dr. Bybee explains why this mentality is dangerous and why hospital management doesn't always respond appropriately to its resulting burnout.
Listen to the full episode here.
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The final doctor we are highlighting is Dr. Maria Baimas-George, MD MPH. She is a surgical resident working at Carolinas Medical Center of Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina. From her first-hand experience with pediatric patients, Dr. Baimas-George has created a children's book series, "The Strength of My Scars: Pediatric Surgical Chronicles," explaining medical procedures and terms and calming fears surrounding health-related issues. She was a guest in August of 2021.
In Episode 45, Dr. Baimas-George tells us about her children's book series, "The Strength of My Scars: Pediatric Surgical Chronicles," and the path that led her to create such meaningful work. Her first-hand experience in the pediatric surgery service shed light on the information that gets lost in translation between patients, their caregivers, and physicians. Physicians speaking in medical jargon to patients and their families who are already anxious and scared is not beneficial. Dr. Baimas-George's series provides both caregivers and children with understandable information they can process more readily in times of high emotion.
Listen to the full episode here.
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