"We have this whole other life outside of the hospital where we may or may not identify as being a physician, and either way I think that's ok. Some people feel like medicine is their calling and they're a doctor at home and a doctor at work. And there are other people who are like I love being a physician and I'm a physician at work but I'm a mom at home and I'm a friend and I'm another person. Maybe we just focus on the physician part, and we have been forced to confront mental healh=th but we really haven't had to confront this idea of having a family in residency in the same way."

In this episode we talk about:
-Having kids in medical school
-Taking leave from medical school after her first child and having to describe how she spent this time while on residency interviews
-The perception that taking time off means you aren't dedicated or it will set you back
-The isolation of being a parent
-Figuring out how to make pumping work when she was told that previously residents hadn't been successful at pumping
-Seeking out advice from various sources
-Being helped out by her colleagues and paying it forward

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