The WoMed

This week on the podcast, D is joined by travel nurse Beatris Gomez who is currently on a crisis assignment battling COVID on the frontlines in Texas. In this episode, Beatris educates on and distinguishes between a travel assignment and a crisis assignment, and discusses how her transient career affects her relationship. She shares what the pay is like as a crisis nurse and what made her want to...

OG Bachelor fans, this one is for you. We have the first ever bachelorette, Trista Sutter! Did you know that Trista was a pediatric physical therapist? In this episode they discuss her career and why she quit practicing, patient advocacy, and the importance of healthcare professionals being open-minded to different types of medicine. They dive into the headaches of insurance, the journey Trista an...

This week on The WoMed, Danielle is joined by an old friend and coworker, Shemeka Davis! Shemeka now works as a family nurse practitioner in oncology. She discusses her path to oncology, why she wanted to become an FNP, and how she copes with the mortality rate in her new role. She also shares the versatility and benefits of being an FNP, but also how she misses those hands-on skills she used to p...

Welcome to Season 3 of The WoMed! In the season premiere, Danielle is joined by the incredibly inspiring Clare Surette, who is living with Crohn’s disease. Clare talks all about destigmatizing Crohn’s and appreciating your body through it all. She opens up about the lack of resources she has found, but how social media helps her feel seen, heard, and connect with others. She discusses mental healt...

It’s the season 2 finale! In the episode today, D is joined by author of Stress in Medicine, professor, and ophthalmic surgeon, Dr. Nina Ahuja. They discuss how she found her passion, finding balance, and getting everything done with her busy schedule and impressive resume. Dr. Ahuja discusses the impacts of COVID on residents and med students now amongst so much uncertainty. She also highlights t...

This week D is joined by 4th year med student and President of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), Osose Oboh! They discuss the residency application process, ranking interviews, how the pandemic has affected the process, and the greatest challenge she has faced in med school. Osose discusses her work with SNMA, a non-profit that focuses on diversifying the face of medicine, and how s...

This week on The WoMed, we’re treated to a conversation with the CEO of Modern Fertility, Afton Vechery. This episode is all about understanding your reproductive health and body, whether you want kids, or not! Modern Fertility services people with ovaries, who simply want to learn more about their bodies, AND they make this information affordable and accessible. D chats with Afton about the lack...

This week, Danielle is joined by the lovely Amanda Garren. Amanda is a social worker and the president of Nashville Angels, a non-profit supporting children and caretakers in the foster care system. She shares how she discovered her passion for social work, and how she takes care of her own mental health in such a demanding field. She discusses what schooling and classes are like for social work,...

This week Danielle is joined by TWO special guests: twin nurses, Sarah and Jenna! They talk about getting into navy nursing, their first station duty in Virginia, plus what it’s like to leave the navy. We learn about their dream to open up their own med spa, their background in a military and nursing family, and their craziest experiences on shift, including a surprise delivery and ingested magnet...

This week’s guest is neonatologist Dr. Kate! Passionate about babies and baby physiology, she splits her time between being an attendant in the NICU and the lab where she studies inflammation biology and nanoparticles for therapy. In today's episode, she and host D get into the joys (and sometimes woes) of working in the NICU, gush over the cuteness of preemies, and express their appreciation for...

Its been a long time coming but the WoMed finally has on its first PA-C guest! This week, host D chats with is Xochitl Renteln, a PA-C that specializes in aesthetics in dermatology and  telemedicine. Those considering the PA route, PAs in training,  and those who just don’t know much about the PA role alike should be sure to tune in! Xochitl shares with D how she found her way to her current speci...

This week on the WoMed, host D is diving into stem careers with soon to be doctor Devon Pawley. Devon is a PhD candidate in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Miami who is developing point of care diagnostics for remote communities to manage disease spread. Devon goes into what it's been like creating diagnostic technologies for COVID, the contrast between academia and industr...

This week’s guest is Kaitlyn Eder who happens to be The WoMed’s first ever psych nurse! Kaitlyn has worked in psych units across the lifespan but her passion mainly lies with adult acute care. Kaitlyn and D debunk misconceptions about the specialization and emphasize the importance of removing stigmas about mental health at large. The two also talk about the need for mental health training through...

This week’s guest on The WoMed is Dr. Hafiza Khan (@heart.beat.doctor). Hafiza is a cardiac electrophysiologist or in other words, a specialist in how the heart beats! She’s developed a knack for explaining the hardest concepts into simple terms – a skill that can be seen in her Instagram account, her patient interactions, and can be heard throughout this episode. Tune in to hear Dr. Khan and host...

This week’s guest brings her warm infectious energy as well as her passion for pediatrics and nurses in training to The WoMed. Host D chats with Jannel Gooden who is a nurse, author and co-founder of Novice is The New Nurse, a company that mentors and empowers new nurses through the difficult transitionary period from school to acute care. Jannel explains how a bad experience in a med surg unit an...

Trust the WoMed to provide you with your weekly dose of healthcare knowledge! This week’s guest is Susan Dentzer, highly regarded health policy expert and Senior Policy Fellow at the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University whose experience reporting on healthcare spans decades. She is also the soon to be host of Optum’s podcast, Until It’s Fixed. In this episode, Susan drops...

This week continues our two-part NICU nurse special with Nurse Tori. Nurse Tori is using her blog Tips From Tori, Instagram, and her Cellfie Podcast to “make healthcare hip, one tip at a time,” sharing stories of healthcare providers and providing her followers with useful tidbits from the NICU. She and host D talk reasons behind nurse burnout, how important is it for expecting parents to do their...

Joining host D on The WoMed is NICU nurse, blogger and fellow podcaster Nurse Tori. Nurse Tori is using social media to “make healthcare hip, one tip at a time” through her blog Tips From Tori, as the host of the Cellfie Podcast, and on Instagram. D and Nurse Tori bond over their experiences working in the NICU from finding a sense of purpose in emotionally charged environments to their feelings a...

Katie Vigos is a nurse who knew she wanted to be in the healthcare profession even before entering university. In this episode, host D and Katie discuss her current career as a per diem nurse specializing in critical care and her past work creating the Empowered Birth Project which started as a way of personal storytelling and blossomed into an online source of information and empowerment for moth...

In today’s episode, D is joined by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Pamela Mehta ( @dr.pamelamehta ). Dr. Pam shares how she knew orthopedic surgery was the perfect fit for her as well as her experiences with sexism and racism in the medical field. They chat doubts about proper representation of women and woman of color in surgery and why this was part of the reason Dr. Pam founded her practice, Resilience...

In this episode of the WoMed, we take a bit of a detour into the world of veterinary medicine with guest Dr Stevie Aitken. She tells us about the many overlaps between human medicine and veterinary medicine as well as what training it takes to become a vet – did you know you can specialize in oncology or cardiology within the field? Dr. Stevie also drops some valuable knowledge on what you should...

In this episode we go deep – deep into the subconscious that is. Host D calls up Juliet C Obodo, hypnotherapist and neurolinguistic master practitioner a who took a major career pivot after working in a lucrative corporate job to find her passion. Juliet answers questions about the practice of hypnosis including how she recognizes thinking patterns, healing ancestral trauma, addressing our inner c...

This week, our host D is in the guest seat answering your questions for her first ever solo Q&A! D shares her experiences juggling mental health in the nursing profession, her study survival tips, and what to expect when starting nurse night shifts. Plus, she shares how she transitioned from being a NICU nurse to entering the aesthetic field and what she has learned along the way.   Be sure to...

On today’s episode, D gets real, open, and honest with the two incredible women behind the West Chester Therapy Group and hosts of the ShrinkChicks podcast, Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT & Emmalee Bierly, LMFT. Through their podcast and work, Jennifer and Emmalee strive to make therapy more available and relatable to those who might not have access to traditional therapy and those who are seeking ans...

The WoMed is here for you this week with a dose of inspiring news in these crazy times! On today’s episode, host D speaks to super gal team Dr. Nana Afoh-Manin, MD and tech founder Stacy Kirk who collaborated to create the web application myCovidMD which helps under-resourced communities get free testing and access to telehealth services during the Coronavirus Public Health crisis. Dr. Nana and St...