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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2.12 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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2.11: Dr. Kelly Wright - MIGS/culture change

We don't often associate autonomy and culture change with large academic employers, but Dr. Kelly Wright is reinventing healthcare around these values.  "Just give your team a goal and autonomy to make it happen,"...
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2.10: Dr. Errin Weisman - The Messy Middle

Dr. Errin Weisman, a board certified Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine doctor, was no longer aligned with her work and burning out again. She did what many of us do - put her head down and kept working - until...
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2.9: Dr. Becky Lynn - Women's health

After 20 years in traditional practice, Dr. Becky Lynn, a board certified OBGYN, started a comprehensive women's health clinic in February 2020.  From the beginning, she used her skills to pivot, grow, learn, and...
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2.8: Dr. Rachel Rubin - Urology/Sex Med/Social Media

Dr. Rachel Rubin, a board certified urologist and fellowship trained sexual medicine physician, who is carving her own path forward in practice, advocacy, and social media.  When job offers for traditional practice...
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2.7: Dr. Shane Purcell - Direct Primary Care

Dr. Shane Purcell is a Family Medicine doctor and founding member of the Direct Primary Care Alliance, an organization that provides education, mentorship, and advocacy for Direct Primary Care Physicians. Dr. Purcell...
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2.6: Dr. Anita Bangale - Emergency Medicine

Dr. Anita Bangale is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician who struggled with burnout early in her career.  Knowing that emergency medicine physicians scale back or retire earlier than their peers, she...
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2.5: Arden Miller - Non-Competes

This week I interview Arden Miller, a health care transactional attorney who helps health care workers and dentists through contractual negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, and restrictive covenants.  She explains...
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2.4: Dr. Chitra Ramasubbu - Pain

Dr. Chitra Ramasubbu had two weeks to make a decision: stay with her established practice or take the unplanned risk to start her own. In the wake of a hospital acquisition, she left her practice, launched an...
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2.3: Dr. Kristine Goins - Nomadic Psychiatry

On this episode, Dr. Kristine Goins shares how she was able to fast track to financial freedom via geo-arbitrage while caring for patients from anywhere in the world. Dr. Goins is a board-certified integrative adult...
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2.2: Dr. Elizabeth Pearce - ENT

Dr. Elizabeth Pearce shares her decision to change her Otolaryngology practice model to better serve her community in Maine. Dr. Pearce opened PearceMD in the summer of 2022, to offer Mainers a simplified, refreshing...
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2.1: Dr. Kara Pepper - Telemedicine

This season on the "It's Not Just You" podcast, we hear from physicians across the country who are redesigning healthcare, creating sustainable careers, and rekindling their love of medicine.  In this episode, we...
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