In this episode we talk story with Dr. Christie Izutsu, a nephrologist and JABSOM’s Internal Medicine Clerkship director. Dr. Izutsu was born and raised here in Hawaii, graduated from JABSOM, and went on to complete her IM residency and nephrology fellowship at UC San Diego. She now practices nephrology in various hospitals, clinics, and hemodialysis centers in Hawaii and American Samoa (pre-COVID)! She’s also currently working on completing a clinical transplant fellowship here as well. Join us as we talk about the diversity of internal medicine, the longitudinal relationships embedded into nephrology, and the importance of “taking care of your goose” (shoutout to Dr. Kasuya)! To the medical students, nephrology is much more than the acid/base disorders and nephron drawings we learn in MD3!