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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2.7: 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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26. Workplace Bullying with Dr. Adam Harrison

    "I think that's why it slapped me in the face. If this can happen to me, what the hell are my female, IMG, gay, and disabled colleagues going through?" Dr Adam Harrison is a Family Physician (he achieved his MD in...
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25. Disenchanted Parenting with Dr. Kathleen Young

"They don't always like their kids. They love them, but they don't always like them, and that turns into guilt and shame. When you have guilt and shame like that, your behavior doesn't reflect your best self."   Dr...
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24. Violent/COVID loss

"I've been blessed to be at so many people's deathbeds. I just run toward death. I really enjoy those sacred moments with patients and their families, and I felt very sad I could not be there for him."Dr. Red Hoffman...
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23. Rebel with Dr. Kristin Yates

When Dr. Kristin Yates, an OBGYN, started listening to her intuition, a skill that was definitely not taught in medical school, she began to rebel against the life she had worked so hard to create.  A pivotal question...
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22. Earthquake with Dr. Christine Gibson

Dr. Christine Gibson's identity and career was forever changed as a survivor of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Who do you become when being a physician is not enough?  In addition to being a family medicine physician,...
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