In this episode, Dr. Alopi Patel delves into the profound connection between spirituality, faith, and chronic pain. Reverend Christine Davies shares her perspective on how spiritual frameworks can offer resilience, purpose, and comfort to those navigating long-term pain conditions. Whether you're a provider, a patient, or someone seeking meaning in the midst of suffering, this conversation offers a thoughtful look at how faith can be a powerful tool in the journey toward healing.

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In this episode, The Female Pain Docs are joined by Dr. Blair Peters, also knows as @queersurgeon on social media. Dr. Peters is a plastic surgeon specialized in gender affirmation surgeries, who also advocates for the LGBTQ+ community. In this episode, they discuss representation and allyship for the LGBTQ+ community, the progress within medicine so far, and how patients can be better served.

The opioid epidemic has swept the nation since the 1990s. In its aftermath, many patients with chronic pain have experienced the unfortunate reality of addiction to the medications they previously received as pain treatments coupled with inadequate treatment of their pain while dealing with addiction and dependence. In this episode, Dr. K explores the field of addiction medicine with special guest, Dr. Sudheer Potru, an interventional pain physician and addiction medicine specialist, whose goal is to find a balance between treating addiction while also adequately treating chronic pain.

In this episode, The Female Pain Docs are joined by patient advocate Ilana Jaqueline to discuss the topic of medical gaslighting. Medical gaslighting occurs when a healthcare professional dismisses a patient’s concerns or wrongly misdiagnoses symptoms as mental illnesses. They discuss signs for patients to lookout for, how patients can advocate for themselves, and changes that need to be made within the medical community to combat medical gaslighting.

In this episode, Dr. P interviews Dr. Dana Corriel. Dr. Corriel made it her mission to disrupt healthcare by empowering physicians to promote autonomy, build a community of forward thinking professionals and provide cross pollination of ideas to advance healthcare for the greater community and patients everywhere. She has built an online platform to promote healthcare innovation and businesses, called SoMe Docs otherwise known as Social Media Docs. In this episode Dr. P breaks down the common types of medical practices as well as the difficulties of navigating each type.

In this episode, Dr. P of The Female Pain Docs chat with special guest, Dr. Tina Dosh, an interventional pain physician with extensive knowledge on neuropathic pain treatments as well as supplements for chronic pain. They discuss the pros and cons of utilizing supplements as well as the role they play in comprehensive pain management.

In this episode, The Female Pain docs discuss physician burnout with special guest, Dr. Anoushka Afonso, board certified anesthesiologist and internal medicine physician. They discuss rates of physician burnout particularly amongst anesthesiologists, risk factors for burnout, as well as outcomes related to physician burnout. They further discuss how this impacts the individual physician, patient care, and the field of medicine as a whole.