Myth, Magic, Medicine

Denise Billen-Mejia MD www.healandberadiant.com Tanya Wansom MD/PhD/MMP on YouTube  Catalyzing Clarity on YouTube  and LinkedIn in this bonus episode I am joined by Dr Tanya Wansom, an American-born, American-trained physician and infectious disease specialist, who shares her career journey and the positive impact she has had by working in Thailand. She discussed the brain drai...

Denise Billen-Mejia, MD CH   www.healandberadiant.com Srikanth Mahankali, MD    sakm5510@live.com    LinkedIn  Dr. Srikanth Mahankali,  shared his journey coming from India to the US for additional training in neuroradiology and how his plans changed when his wife and son joined him. He discussed the challenges of the immigration process and his career...

Hosted by Denise Billen-Mejia:  www.healandberadiant.com Guest Tatyana Resnik:    www.joyfulsuccessliving.com In this penultimate episode of "Myth, Magic, Medicine 2 (immigrant) doctors talking" I chat with Tatyana Resnick, who was a cardiologist in her homeland of Uzbekistan, and then came to the USA to start over. Fueled by her childhood experience with her grandmother's illn...

Hosted by Denise BIllen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com Guest Harry Nima Zagarra  Meet Harry Nima Zegarra, a seasoned Pulmonary & Critical Care physician, shrewd real estate investor, and entrepreneur who loves to help fellow doctors recognize the value of real estate investment,  as he tells the story of his medical school, residency and group practice journey so far.  Along wit...

host Denise BIllen-Mejia  www.healandberadiant.com Guest Heba Ismail MBBCh/PhD www.medicine.iu.edu/faculty/43095/ismail-heba   Dr. Heba Ismail is here again to chat about her slightly convoluted journey to the USA.  She earned her MBBCh  with honors from the Faculty of Medicine at C airo University, in 1999 and completed her residency and pediatric endo...

Denise Billen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com Manisha Ghimire "Progress with Manisha & Ananta" https://empoweredarthritis.com/ In this episode, Manisha Ghirimre MD,from Kathmandu,  explains a little of her journey to practice in USA and what else she is learning about now. If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find an episode relevant to your own work you will be able to apply...

Denise Billen-Mejia  www.healandberadiant.com Special Notice  I had a lot of trouble with the transcription software this week, so it will be corrected and replaced asap. In this episode, I talk to Joanna Kingsley and Emill Levasseur from the Dominican Republic  Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Emill and Joanna pursued their dreams of becoming physicians, but the...

Denise Billen-Mejia  www.healandberadiant.com Swapna Vaidya           www.swapnavaidya.com   In this episode, I chat with  Dr. Swapna Vaidya, a psychiatrist with a diverse and impressive background.  She currently serves as the lead psychiatrist for Options MD, a digital platform specializing in personalized solutions for patients with treatment-resista...

Dr. Denise Billen-Mejia  www.healandberadiant.com Dr Anca Sisu  https://restorebalance.net/ Doctor Anca Sisu was determined to come to the US and persue post-graduate training.  So much so that she spent her clinical training years in medical school also training as a nurse and, in fact worked for several years as a registered nurse before starting her family medicine/integrati...

Dr. Denise Billen-Mejia  www.healandberadiant.com Dr. Nawras Abuhamidah  FACP Internal Medicine/Primary care   Dr Nawras Abuhamidah Drnawras84@gmail.com CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center Bergan Mercy · Omaha, NE This is an unusual episode.  Dr Abuhamidah was in the line-up of 12 immigrant physicians scheduled for this season but it seemed b...

Listen-in as 2 doctors talk about myths, magic, the practice of medicine and everything in between.  This season all the guests are immigrant doctors who were fully-qualified doctors when they came to the US for postgraduate training and now established in their careers here in the USA This episode I had a long chat with Dr. Nadia Mujahid, originally from Pakistan, she is an Associa...

Season 3 Myth, Magic, Medicine   This season features only physicians who have moved to the USA after qualifying as doctors in their native land.   In this episode I talk to Case Troutman from Manila, Philippines     Caissa Troutman is board certified in Family & Obesity Medicine and certified as a Culinary Medicine Specialist (ABFM, ABOM, CCMS) She is the Founder and Passi...

Myth, Magic, Medicine hosted by Akeso & Aglaia LLC    www.healandberadiant.com This, the first episode of Season 3 "Myth, Magic, Medicine" features Dr Mamta Kumar,  board certified in Internal Medicine and Integrative/Functional medicine physician, & speaker in Texas.    After switching 4 jobs in 8 years she wanted to create more aligned and sustainable life which...

Season 2 is officially over but this season's "bonus" episode is with Dr  Tatyana Reznik a guest for the upcoming Season 3 " Immigrant Doctors Navigating the American Healthcare System" which will launch in the fall.   Tatyana is a hospitalist practicing in Northern California and also certified in Lifestyle Medicine as well as a Life Coach.  Her own podcast " Voices of Women Physic...

Denise Billen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com  My time in medicine began not long after S.O.A.P .became a thing and several of the older physicians were very suspicious, some kept an entire family's history in a single record and only a few secluded spots in the hospital were available for longform documentation.    Charts were often indecipherable to all but the author and bill...

Denise Billen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com   in this episode I am chatting with someone I talk to often, since we became accountability partners several months ago but it was a delight to learn more about my guest Dr Melinda Williams Willingham. An experienced pediatrician who completed her residency in 1998 and  in private practice for almost 25 years she recognized early the inf...

Denise Billen-Mejia MD  www.healandberadiant.com In this episode we start with how medicine has changed and how much better women are now represented in the profession, the differences in medical training and licensing between Eire (Southern Ireland )and other countries, and Fiona’s choice of career as a General Practioner. Fiona shares that she has been working in general practice for 15 yea...

Denise Billen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com   In this episode I chat with Sujin Lee, a physiatrist with subspecialty training in spinal cord injury. Sujin chose a hybrid career of clinical, research and teaching on leaving fellowship and now,also, coaches physicians. We talk about the changing face of medicine and the increasing acceptance of alternative ways of practicing now; part-time, te...

 Denise Billen-Mejia MD CH www.healandberadiant.com   This episode I am talking to Anita Kumar MD. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, studied medicine at RCS Dublin and IM trained in Kentucky,  she now lives with her husband, (Gabiel Bietz  MMM Season 1 Episode 10) and   two children in San Antonio, TX. Recently Amita made a huge change, she quit her day job! Now she is wo...

Denise Billen-Mejia MD CH  www.healandberadiant.com In this week's episode I chat with Trina Dorrah,  a hospitalist who has been practicing for 14 years. Inspired by a weight loss coach she hired in 2019, she decided to become a life coach herself in 2020, when she saw how it was changing lives. She believes that life coaching is an extension of the healing personality that physicia...

Multi-Generational Living : Home For All Denise Billen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com In this episode, a rambling 52 minutes, I chat with new friend Dr. Rebecca Tapia, physician, Mom and caregiver for her 89 year old grandmother. She has stood at the intersection of life-altering events and family dynamics for nearly 15 years as a PM&R physician, and now shares her combined personal and p...

 Denise Billen-Mejia MD CH www.healandberadiant.com Welcome to our 5th episode of season 2 with Dr Heba Ismail, a board certified pediatrician and pediatric endocrinologist. She is also a researcher as well as mother of two young children and a blogger. She is passionate about helping people with diabetes and has dedicated her career to helping those with diabetes and other chronic condi...

Myth, Magic, Medicine- 2 doctors talking... is hosted by Denise Billen-Mejia, a retired physician and practicing consulting hypnotist at Akeso & Aglaia LLC. www.healandberadiant.com Oxana Ormonova, MD is a board certified Internal medicine physician with 20 years of clinical experience in hospital medicine( Hospitalist). now an Intuitive Healer/Intuitive Life Coach & Spiritual Counsel...

In my opinion this subject should be a mandatory class in medical school. No doctor is exempt from the possibility of illness or injury and all but the very wealthy need to make sure they can protect their income. The subject is close to my heart because at I was disabled at 48 and, although it took 10 months was able to keep my house and educate my sons because I had insurance.  Th...

In this episode I catch up with Linda Saether who shares her unique journey with me- from practicing medicine to becoming a successful writer. We first met at Medical School and last saw each other when Linda graduated from Pediatrics and went off to VA to practice medicine and grow her family.  Over the years I heard she had moved back to FL and changed to Urgent Care but it was only in this...