Empowering Women Physicians

What you think over and over, your automatic thoughts, become your beliefs. What you believe is possible for your life is often what you create in your life. What would you like to believe? If you could believe anything was possible? If I had a platter of beliefs and you could choose any one you wanted. If you could teach yourself it's possible that __________, what would you like to believe you c...

In this episode, we celebrate the arrival of the first woman physician in Congress, Dr. Kim Schrier.   Woo hooooo!!!   As well as celebrating  over 100 women now representing us in congress (127 to be exact; 102 in the House and 25 in the Senate).    We also ask you to consider looking for opportunities.  There are many places where you may feel powerless but may be able to start to take back your...

In this episode we reflect on the past year and how to get the results we want in the New Year.  We reinforce, review, and build on some of the tools and information we have discussed thus far in the podcast and put them all together to purposefully create a great new year. References https://www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions Xu JQ, Murphy SL, Kochanek KD, Bastian B, Arias...

In this episode, we discuss how you can apply the scientific method to your life.  As children we are natural scientists and experiment with the world to learn how things work.  As we physicians we are trained scientists. We want to cultivate that intellectual curiosity and start to apply what we have learned thus far about our power, our control, our choices, our ability to improve our own lives...

We discuss how important it is to have control of our own narrative. We also discuss how cognitive psychology studies reveal that we notice things only when we purposefully focus our attention on looking for them.   We also look at what questions we are often asking ourselves, how our brain seeks to answer questions, and how we can utilize that to our advantage to ask more empowering questions to...

This episode discusses how women can speak up and advocate for themselves by advocating for others (the mama bear effect).   We then discuss key take home points from a recent Women In Medicine conference that many women physicians could find useful.   References Book: Friend & Foe: When to cooperate, when to compete, and how to succeed at both by Adam Galinsky.   Summary of his Ted Talk:  https:/...

In this episode, Dr Sunny Smith describes how she quite literally fell into a situation that left her realizing she didn't really HAVE to do all the things she usually did that kept her so busy. We make choices about our lives every single day without even realizing it.  We all have much more power than we have ever realized to make choices to create our lives more intentionally. 

Just as we are used to making an assessment and plan in medicine, we are going to talk about making an assessment and plan for your life. This episode encourages women physicians to set goals, decide what results they'd like to see in their lives, then commit to creating their life with intention.

This episode describes how to separate facts from the stories we are telling ourselves about them. It helps us identify the narrative and empowers us to CHANGE the narrative. In medicine we have subjective versus objective sections of our notes for a reason.  Let's apply the same logic to our lives and see where it takes us.

This episode talks about the need to become aware of your thoughts about your life right now. There are perhaps some things you love, some things that are okay, and things that you'd like to change. In medicine, our first step is to take a good history before we make an assessment.  An accurate and well informed assessment is necessary before embarking on making a plan.  We will use the same forma...

In this episode, we'll talk about a little bit about the context in which we current practice medicine, history, the Hippocratic Oath, and what you can do to start maintaining the utmost respect for your OWN human life and its quality.   References discussed in this podcast Desai T, Ali S, Fang X , et al.   Equal work for unequal pay: the gender reimbursement gap for healthcare providers in the Un...