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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2.19: 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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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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