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I'm Dr. Nirvani Umadat, and after more than a decade in conventional dentistry, I started questioning everything I thought I knew about health. One day, a patient who did everything “right”—brushed and flossed religiously, avoided sugar, drank liters of water, and never missed a checkup—looked at me and asked: “Why do I still get cavities?” That question shook me. It wasn’t just difficult to answer—it was a wake-up call. It pushed me to dig deeper, to challenge the mainstream narratives, and to uncover the real connections between oral health, whole-body wellness, and even the ...

Te Becoming Healers Podcast is for clinicians by clinicians. Our aim is to pioneer systemic transformation in the South African healthcare sector by curating conversations that shift paradigms and encourage this generation of clinicians to be change agents and solution driven pioneers for the challenges facing the healthcare sector. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ramblings of a osteopathic medical student doing medicine. We discuss all thing Medicine and life as a medical student.

Welcome to the Becoming Latina Physicians podcast with Dr. Lourdes Alanis, a double board certified Interventional and Diagnostic Radiologist. Dr. Alanis is passionate about helping others achieve their goal of becoming physicians by discussing her journey into medicine from the perspective of a Latina Physician. Each episode you'll hear from trailblazing physicians discuss their journey into medicine and learn how to prepare and embrace all the challenges that come with a career in medicine- the good, the bad, and the ugly.Be sure to follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode and ...

Dr. Erik Handberg, MD talks about ”Becoming a Medical Examiner” with other Forensic Pathologists, discussing what the job entails and how each of them got there! If you are interested in true crime, autopsy, forensic investigation, toxicology, and the evaluation of natural and unnatural deaths then this podcast will show you what it is like for those physicians who chose to spend their lives dealing with death.

The Fertility Diet reveals startling new research from the landmark Nurses' Health Study, which shows that the food you eat can boost your fertility. The Nurses' Health Study exhaustively examined the effects of diet and other lifestyle changes on fertility among nearly 20,000 female nurses. Two of the study's lead researchers translate its groundbreaking findings into changes you can put into practice today. This book prescribes 10 simple changes in diet and activity that can increase your chances of getting pregnant.

Doctors and other health care professionals are too often socialized and pressured to become "efficient task completers" rather than healers, which leads to unengaged and unimaginative medical practice, burnout, and diminished quality of care. It doesn't have to be that way. With a range of thoughtful guests, co-hosts Saul Weiner MD and Stefan Kertesz MD MS, interrogate the culture and context in which clinicians are trained and practice for their implications for patient care and clinician well-being. The podcast builds on Dr. Weiner's 2020 book, On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient...

The white coat protects the patient. Who protects the person inside it? The Cost of Becoming is an unflinching examination of the culture of medicine. Hosted by Dr. JB, this series treats the provider experience as a clinical case study. We bypass the surface-level burnout talk to diagnose the deeper issues: moral injury, the fallacy of invincibility, and the grief we are taught to hide. Through raw interviews and "Clinical Case Files," we explore the untold stories of healthcare—from the trauma of residency to the search for meaning in a broken system. If you have ever felt alone in a ...

As he works his way through his medical training, Ike Anya's grandmother reassures him: Everything worthwhile is achieved small by small. Ike's story charts the triumphs and failures of his student days through to his first demanding year as a house officer. A medical memoir unlike any from the West, this is filled with the colour and vibrancy of tempestuous 1990s Nigeria, where political unrest, social change and a worsening economy make a doctor's life particularly challenging.