"Because then I had to go back to residency, and I could have quit but I didn't want to. I was feeling better, but going back as a brand new first time mom - breastfeeding, not sleeping, all the things - was so much easier than going through residency with depression."

This episode is with Dr. Padget Skogman who is a board certified pediatrician.

In this episode we talk about:

- Dealing with depression in residency

- The disconnect between what her program director thought was an appropriate mental health leave (1 week) vs her psychiatrist advocating for much longer

- The difference between doing residency training depressed vs as a new mom coming back from maternity leave

- Second episode of postpartum depression, taking much longer to recover from as she only had 6 weeks of maternity leave

- Being a physician with type I diabetes

- Being the first woman physician to join a practice

- Her current passion project

- and so much more!

Connect with Moms of Medicine:
- Instagram @moms_of_medicine
- Momsofmedicine@gmail.com

Connect with Dr. Padget Skogman:

- Instagram @padgetskogmanmd

- Padgetskogmanmd.com

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Solo episode today sharing a big secret I've been keeping (I promise this isn't click bait) and everything leading up to my cancer diagnosis.

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"It’s really just an extension of the general ethos in medicine which has existed for a very long time – generations, centuries - which says that in order to make other people well we have to make ourselves sick. That is only recently being questioned. "

This episode is with Dr. Suzanne Koven who was a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital for over 30 years, has had a prolific literaray career and now serves as the Writer in Residence of Massachusetts General Hospital full time.

In this episode we talk about:

- Her experience having a baby in residency

- Pre-eclampsia

- Being asked to write her own maternity leave policy

- Her feelings about going part time and what her primary care patients thought about this

- What it was like to retire from clinical medicine (spoiler alert - she doesn't miss it)

- How she got started in her literary career

- The importance of sharing stories

- Her book Letter to a Young Female Physician and how that came about

- The memoir that she is currently writing

Connect with Moms of Medicine:
- Instagram @moms_of_medicine
- Momsofmedicine@gmail.com

Connect with Dr. Suzanne Koven:

- Instagram @kovensuzanne