It's Not Just You with Dr. Kara Pepper

It's Not Just You with Dr. Kara Pepper

Hosted by: Dr. Kara Pepper

As a physician, coach, and friend, people share their most intimate experiences with me. This podcast shares the intimate stories of life in medicine. Season 2 features physicians who are reimagining healthcare...

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2.23 - Dr. Ritha Belizaire - Colorectal Surgery and Impostor Syndrome

Micropractice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to starting your own practice starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any time.    Dr. Ritha Belizaire is a dual board certified general and colorectal surgeon...
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2.22: Dr. Laurel Fick - IM academics to Micropractice

Micro Practice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to starting your own practice starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any time.    Dr. Laurel Fick, an Internist in residency program leadership, became...
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2.21: Dr. Amy Vertrees - General Surgery and Practice Ownership

Micro Practice Mastermind - a vetted, expert roadmap to starting your own practice starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any time.    Dr. Amy Vertrees began her career and was deployed in the military, became...
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2.20: Dr. Andrea Austin: EM/processing healthcare trauma

Micro Practice Mastermind - starting October 6, 2024. Register to join at any time.    "When I think back about what has traumatized me as an Emergency physician, it was not being deployed [in the military], it was...
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2.19: Dr. Rebecca Berens - Early Career DPC

Dr. Rebecca Berens is a board-certified family physician and international board certified lactation consultant.  She opened her DPC practice in January 2020, just two months before the pandemic and just 10 months...
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2.18: Dr. Jillian Bybee - Critical Care/Organizational Wellness

Dr. Jillian Bybee, a pediatric critical care medicine physician, medical educator, coach, and wellbeing leader is creating wellness within traditional academic medical centers.  After experiencing profound burnout...
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2.17: Dr. Emma Jones: Onc/Palliative care

Dr. Emma Jones shares what lies beneath the pivotal hard moments in her career.  From the fantasy of being the "everything to everyone" pediatric oncologist, through standing up to conventional thinking in medicine to...
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2.16: Authorship with Drs. Jessi Gold and Jonathan Fisher

"Would you be frustrated if someone else wrote this first?" This question posed to Dr. Jessi Gold encouraged her to finally start writing the book that was living inside of her.     "There is an excellent [author's]...
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2.15: Dr. Shamita Trivedi - Endocrinology and Yoga

Dr. Shamita Trivedi, an endocrinologist, allowed the flow of her career from the typical track of academic medicine, to private practice, to holistic women's care.  Her career change was fueled by her desire for...
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2.14: Dr. Erin King-Mullins - Colorectal Surgery

Dr. Erin King-Mullins is a Colorectal Surgeon, podcaster, and author.  When she was offered a pay cut in the midst of the pandemic, she decided to step out on her own.  With her young family, she built Atlanta's...
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2.13: Dr. Keira Barr - Psychodermatology and Trauma-informed Care

Dr Keira Barr's "mess became her mission" when chronic stress led to life threatening skin problems.  Her skin was signaling underlying dis-ease that finally leveled her into stillness. This...
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2.12 Dr. Mel Thacker - ENT/non-conformity

 We hear from Dr. Mel Thacker as she is transitioning from her group ENT practice to a solo, direct care model of practice.  Always the non-conformist, she shares the "purpose high" that comes with deep belief that...
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