Doctor Me First with Errin Weisman DO

Have you ever felt as if your worth is solely equated by your achievements? That you're only as good as the work you do and the people you help? You're not the only one. Most physicians feel that way, but that feeling is not the truth. Jessie Wei joins me to chat about what it means to remember who you are, not what you've done.    Jessie is a former OB-Gyn who has spent her career helping women t...

There is no one right path for physicians in medicine. The medical field is made up of so many more puzzle pieces than simply being a clinician and the field overall benefits when doctors choose to take on non-clinical careers. No one knows this better than Dr. Jawaria Suhail.    She was born in Pakistan and raised in Saudi Arabia with only one professional path available to her. She was going to...

Menopause is more than hot flashes and night sweats. It affects every woman differently and can have symptoms that range from anxiety to memory loss to depression. Why is it that women physicians who are making this transition know very little about the condition?    Dr. Beverly Joyce has studied female anatomy her entire medical career. She has been in gynecology and obstetrics for many years but...

Craig and I are back to talk about all the things going on behind the scenes on the home front. First up is our trek into birthday land. Every year we make it a point to have a huge celebration for every one of the birthdays coming up each year. For pretty much all of Fall and Winter it's a birthday every few weeks and we love it!   Another thing we're loving is Craig's role as the Director of Mer...

Mental health is one of the most important areas of our overall health, especially for physicians. But the stigma surrounding mental health has many doctors hiding behind burnout rather than find a solution to the underlying problem. While that may not be all of us, it certainly is many.   Dr. Michelle Curtin is passionate about helping young clinicians to understand the difference and to get thei...

Perfectionism isn't always a good thing. Especially when it holds you back from your dreams because you're so scared of failure that you're too afraid to try something new. Dr. Jessie Benson was living that life until she realized that she needed to be more authentic to herself and her dreams.    Finally realizing what was holding her back from her happiness was just the first step in a very long...

You are beautiful just the way you are. These are not words that women of color hear very often in popular culture and many times not even within their own culture. Nena Wallace, Candice Williams, and Jasmine Colbert created the Black Beauty Project and even created and produced their own single, also called Black Beauty.  It all started as a dream. Candice fell asleep one night while thinking abo...

Why are physicians much more likely to experience burnout than other professions? Brenda Thompson has worked in various roles throughout her experience in Graduate Medical Education. Everything from accreditation specialist to GME manager to wellness and transition trainer. She's the first to tell you that the reason we experience burnout is the systemic disregard for physicians as human beings. T...

Why do we push ourselves beyond what a normal human being can stand? Why do we work and work regardless of the state of our own mental and physical health? Because we're doctors. Because we already have all the medical knowledge so we must know better right? Wrong! Pushing ourselves to try and be superhuman is not what makes us powerful. Instead rebooting your mental immunity, eliminating saboteur...

Overwhelm hits us from all sides, but when you're a doctor, how do you process it? You've got your patients, your family, continuing education, insurance debates… obviously I could keep talking, but how do you move past the overwhelm and find joy in life again? Dr. Michelle Chestovich found herself asking these exact same questions and after listening to a podcast episode had an epiphany. The way...

Being a female physician comes with a slew of problems that has nothing to do with doctoring. Being a female physician of color is a whole other conversation. Dr. Shika Dooley joins me to start that conversation and I invite you to continue it. For Dr. Dooley, and all the physicians just like her, there is not much more they can do on their own to bring awareness to their plight. They've had prote...

When you have as impactful a conversation as this one, it doesn't matter if the person is male or female; it must be shared. Which is why I'm doing another Patreon exclusive episode. Listen as Dr. Brian Young shares his journey with burnout, and if you want to hear the entire story, stop on over and check out the Patreon group. Dr. Young struggled with burnout before it even had a name. He came ou...

Sometimes we need to go fringe to get out of our heads. Caitlin Donovan uses Chinese medicine to help her clients get out of the pit of depression and burnout. She has traveled a windy path to find her current career. We chat about a variety of topics that all come back to the overall theme, we all heal differently. Do what's right for you! As Caitlin says, there is still a bit of magic in this wo...

There are so many aspects to complex pediatric care that most doctors tend to shy away from the practice. Caring for the most innocent of lives takes a toll no matter who you are or what your motivation. This became even more true when Dr. Stella Evans had her son.  She was drawn to complex pediatrics for many reasons but when she had her son she realized that she needed to help support other pare...

Back by popular demand… Our Married to an Alpha Female episode! Craig and I sat down to chat about everything from back to school, the things he doesn't know, what's happening on the farm and why farmer suicide is on the rise. I won't lie, it was late, I was tired, and we had a fairly jumpy conversation but you're getting a great inside look at what it means to be in the Weisman household. The kid...

The friends you make in medical school are friends for life. Very few people know what that experience entails. For doctors Jill Wener and Marjorie Stiegler their friendship has solidified into a business partnership as well. Both of them were bitten early on with the entrepreneurial bug and wanted to create more out of the careers that they were focused on. They were still fulfilled but they knew...

Just because others think your way is wrong, doesn't mean that's true. Dr. Nikhila Schroeder and her husband opened their clinic, Allergenuity Health, with no lack of skepticism coming at them from all sides. They were determined, however, and now they have a loyal customer base and a business that feels right. Nikhila has been working in the medical field for over a decade and knows that it can b...

A true system of medicine is based on a central understanding of creation and where the human being fits into the rest of creation. Our current system of medicine is mainly based on the economic system. This realization is why Dr. Melinda Toney created her Chrysalis Services program to treat the whole human. Our lives are made up of a series of chrysalis moments where we transform in one way or an...

The course is live and ready for purchase! You may be wondering why I decided to join the ranks of hundreds and thousands of other course creators by creating my own course. Well, I've had several people ask for it! What do you do when someone isn't ready to work with you 1:1 and make dramatic changes in their lives? You build a course so that they can start making small changes, right now, rather...

It's time that you get to experience me doing my thing! I love coming onto the podcast and interviewing amazing women, but I wanted to share with you what it's like to work with me. In case you've considered it but coaching seems scary. Because good coaching is sometimes scary. You have to dig deep and unearth those things that have been whispers in your mind. The whispers could be good or bad but...

The Patreon episodes are poppin! I love supporting you in your role as a female physician… but I also love to support you as women. Which is why I've created the Doctor Me First Patreon Group , to continue the conversation with a whole new perspective. You can help support this podcast while also getting advice from male physicians, parenting coaches, life coaches, and so many more! I wanted the P...

Your ability to feel compassion for yourself is imperative. Why? Because no one else is meant to take care of you but… YOU! If you don't have compassion for yourself, who else will? Dr. Nerissa Bauer is here to chat about burnout and how to circumvent this horrible fate. You have to love yourself enough to let other people help you. Period. The only way to grow and thrive in any business is to und...

WE MADE IT! This is our 200th episode! I want to send a huge thanks to all of our listeners for helping us to make it this far. I know you're there and I appreciate it so much. I even asked some of our repeat guests to send in some shout outs and words of encouragement just for you! Listen in to hear their awesome words of thanks and praise.   That's not all though! For the 200th episode I wanted...

We're doctors. We should be the first to realize and understand that we're dealing with mental health issues and how to treat them right? Wrong. Many times we are struggling with things but because there is no safe space to talk about them, our issues become worse rather than better.   Dr. Lynette Charity has been there and she's not going back. She grew up in the segregated south, watched a car h...

An epidemic of extreme proportions has hit the world, and it is not Covid-19. The rate of childhood suicide is skyrocketing and the reason behind it is undiagnosed trauma per Dr. Lulu. Depression is not the only reason someone may fall into thoughts of suicide, but trauma is the one common link.   Suicide claims the life of one person every 20 seconds. Why? Is it because of the increase of childho...