Reconciling Medicine

Dr. John and Renee discuss their thoughts on their training days in residency and fellowship.

Key Takeaways:
-  Show up, everyday, always.
- Learn on the job, let your patients be your teachers.
- It's a super hard, poorly paying job with excellent benefits.
- Work hard at work and then get the f*** outta there.
- You can learn something from everyone, even assholes.
- Neglecting yourself will result in losing yourself. 

Dr. John and Dr. Renee discuss their thoughts on how to navigate medical school.

Key Takeaways:
-  You are more than just a medical student.
- You are meant too be there - fight back on that imposter syndrome.
- Study your ass off, but don't study your life away.
- Run your own race.
- Keep a wide open mind, especially third year.
- Your struggles will make you stronger.

Dr. John and Dr. Renee discuss their path to applying to medical school.

Episode take aways:
-  Make sure you are doing this for the right reasons.
- Applying to medical school is the first in a long list of miserable but surmountable tasks.
- If you want to do this, you can do this.
- You are more than just a premed.
- Dream big and cast a big net.
- Great doctors can graduate from poorly known schools. Lousy doctors can graduate from Harvard.

Welcome to the Reconciling Medicine Podcast! We are the Doctors Paro and we hope you'll listen and enjoy our thoughts on medicine, life and all things in between. 

In the kick off episode, Dr. John and Dr. Renee discuss their thoughts on why medicine is not dead.

Key Takeaways:
- Burnout is real, but it doesn't have to be a given.
- We are smart, talented, resourceful people who need to believe in ourselves more and stand up for those beliefs.
- Change doesn't have to be bad especially if physicians learn to initiate it.
- You can truly change a person's life in a clinic room.
- We know so much. We know nothing.
- We may be living longer but we aren't living better - doctors need to take action on what is causing the disease of our time, our lifestyle.

Renee is back with a solo episode discussing her recent path to leadership and few lessons she's learned in the first year of her new role.

She shares some pearls and thoughts today with plans to expand into this topic more deeply in the future.

John and Renee continue talk about their evolution on how to stay informed without losing their minds on a regular basis. 

They talk about experiences over the last couple years that have made them re-evaluate how they want to show up in the world. 

Join Renee and her dear friend Emily to discuss the COVID vaccine in kids. 

This is a topic that is very important in the day to day clinical experience of taking care of kids as a pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist. 

Because of the incidence of COVID vaccine associated myocarditis - Renee has discussions with patients about the risk/benefit profile of vaccination in clinic on a regular basis. With the help of Emily (who had questions herself) we dive into the topic.

This episode is meant to inform while also digging into challenges in communication that can also hamper productive conversation.

John's back to join Renee... already. Ha!

They return for an episode to talk about some thoughts, being a bit over 5 years into practice.

A career in medicine is a journey and it feels like the discussion of the different parts of a career, after the training and selection of a job, seems to fall off. 

John candidly speaks about his most recent experience with burnout that happened over the last year and ways he's worked to improve his practice to help.

Renee has finally loosened up and let go of the need for all the rigid points.

Win of the week, fail of the week is back as well as some original music from John. Warning - Renee cries every single time she hears the song at the end. Every time. 

Reconciling Medicine.... It's BACK! 

The podcast has been on quite a hiatus and in this episode Renee shares why and what the future direction of the podcast will look like.

 John will be taking a bit of a step back - not stepping fully out, just back! - going forward. 

Excited to be back in your ears!