Summary
In this episode, Dr. Joyce Park shares her journey as a board-certified dermatologist and social media influencer, discussing her unique path into teledermatology and the challenges of balancing motherhood with her career. She reflects on the evolution of her practice, the importance of social media in driving patient engagement, and the realities of outsourcing childcare. Dr. Park emphasizes the need for women to redefine success and not be afraid to take non-traditional paths in their careers.

Takeaways

• Dr. Joyce Park is a board-certified dermatologist with a teledermatology practice.
• She began her journey in social media in 2011, initially as a blog.
• Her telehealth practice allows her to balance work and motherhood effectively.
• Social media drives all her patients, eliminating the need for traditional advertising.
• Dr. Park emphasizes the importance of flexibility in her career to spend time with her children.
• She discusses the challenges of maternity leave in the medical field.
• Outsourcing childcare is essential for working mothers to maintain balance.
• Dr. Park is launching a new haircare line, focusing on specific conditions.
• She believes in the importance of training the next generation of men to share household responsibilities.
• Success in medicine should not be defined by traditional metrics but by personal fulfillment.

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- Instagram @teawithmd

- teawithmd.com

keywords

dermatology, telehealth, motherhood, social media, skincare, haircare, women in medicine, work-life balance, parenting, entrepreneurship

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"Because then I had to go back to residency, and I could have quit but I didn't want to. I was feeling better, but going back as a brand new first time mom - breastfeeding, not sleeping, all the things - was so much easier than going through residency with depression."

This episode is with Dr. Padget Skogman who is a board certified pediatrician.

In this episode we talk about:

- Dealing with depression in residency

- The disconnect between what her program director thought was an appropriate mental health leave (1 week) vs her psychiatrist advocating for much longer

- The difference between doing residency training depressed vs as a new mom coming back from maternity leave

- Second episode of postpartum depression, taking much longer to recover from as she only had 6 weeks of maternity leave

- Being a physician with type I diabetes

- Being the first woman physician to join a practice

- Her current passion project

- and so much more!

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- Instagram @padgetskogmanmd

- Padgetskogmanmd.com

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Solo episode today sharing a big secret I've been keeping (I promise this isn't click bait) and everything leading up to my cancer diagnosis.

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"It’s really just an extension of the general ethos in medicine which has existed for a very long time – generations, centuries - which says that in order to make other people well we have to make ourselves sick. That is only recently being questioned. "

This episode is with Dr. Suzanne Koven who was a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital for over 30 years, has had a prolific literaray career and now serves as the Writer in Residence of Massachusetts General Hospital full time.

In this episode we talk about:

- Her experience having a baby in residency

- Pre-eclampsia

- Being asked to write her own maternity leave policy

- Her feelings about going part time and what her primary care patients thought about this

- What it was like to retire from clinical medicine (spoiler alert - she doesn't miss it)

- How she got started in her literary career

- The importance of sharing stories

- Her book Letter to a Young Female Physician and how that came about

- The memoir that she is currently writing

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- Instagram @kovensuzanne

"I think we're so geared on the next step - what do I have to do next, I need to complete this before I get to the next step, then this will make me happy. I think we're constantly doing that to ourselves and we don't even know what happy means or what we wanted. My husband and I sat down, we were at Red Robins getting french firies and burgers, and we looked at each other and were like 'Is this what we worked our whole lives to be? This is not great. This is not that fun'."

This episode is with Dr. Nicole Basa who is a private practice general and bariatric surgeon in Austin , Texas.

In this episode we talk about:

- Female mentorship in surgery (spoiler alert, it wasn't always positive)

- How she thought about having a child in surgical residency vs not

- Getting pregnant with her first child while she was in the thick of starting a private surgical practice with her husband

- Starting a private practice with her husband and what it's like working with your husband

- The logistics of owning a practice with your spouse when you have to deal with the unpredictability of childcare (daycare illnesses...)

- and so much more!

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- Instagram @nicolebasamd

- Her practice B+A Medical Center

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This episode is with Dr. Sheri Dewan, a board certified neurosurgeon practicing in Chicago.

In this episode we talk about:

- Sheri's inspiration behind becoming a neurosurgeon

- Talking with her husband while they were dating about what it would look like for the two of them to get married and her have a career in neurosurgery

- How she dealt with the numerous people who told her she couldn't be a neurosurgeon

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- The times in training when she might go several days where she only saw her children while they were asleep

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- Doing pro-bono surgeries in India, another thing people told her she couldn't do or would no longer have the desire to do after finishing her training

- And so much more!

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Connect with Dr. Dewan:

- Instagram @drsheridewan

- drsheridewan.com

- Grab a copy of her book, Cutting A Path

"I got in a lot of trouble and so I will never forget my attending said you will never keep the lights on if you practice like that."

This episode is with Dr. Lauren Hughes who is a primary care pediatrician in Kansas City.

In this episode we talk about:

- Having kids in residency and how this might have been the worst time to have kids but there's also no good time

- Having a baby intern year and then having twins in March 2020, a few months before she was going to finish residency and start her own practice

- Her breastfeeding story and how it inspired her to get extra training in lactation medicine

- Being a physician and caring for a child with a rare disease (her son has MCAD where he is missing an enzyme that converts fat to sugar)

- The inspiration behind opening her own direct primary care practice

- Operationally what it looks like to run a direct care practice and how this differs from a concierge practice

- How she got started on social media and what she uses it for today

- and so much more!

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- Instagram @bloomdpc

- drlaurenhughes.com

" I remember I was working a morning shift and it was 7 or 730 and I remember exactly where I am because I have a spatial memory and I was in between these two rooms. One had a STEMI and I was trying to get him to the cath lab, the other had a stroke I was trying to administer tpa and I get a phone call and the nanny is calling out."

This episode is with Dr. Camie Sorenson who is an Emergency Medicine physician in Fresno, California.

In this episode we talk about:

- Meeting her husband and the decision not to factor in where he was living when she made her rank list

- Making a long distance relationship work

- Infertility and how she thinks her job contributed to this

- How she managed to undergo fertility treatments

- Being the first woman at her job to take maternity leave

- Going on to have 4 children and what that looks like today now that they are a little older

- Quitting her job when it wasn't working for her

- Advocating for yourself and knowing your worth

and so much more!

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