Mothers In Medicine
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Welcome to the Mothers In Medicine Podcast. Here we have honest and open conversations with leaders in the medical field who are also mothers. Hear their real life stories and also gain from their practical tips and advice for managing the juggle.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dr. Shola turns doctors' accounts of motherhood into clear-eyed lessons about fatigue, support, career pressure, and the limits of doing everything alone.
Mothers In Medicine Podcast treats the collision between clinical work and motherhood as a practical problem with emotional consequences. Dr. Shola's guest conversations return to burnout, depleted self-care, fatigue on shift, changing childcare arrangements, and the pressure to…
A PhD chapter waits through maternity leave; you get a less polished picture of medical motherhood.
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A direct look at fertility treatment in medical life.
The episode keeps its focus on the day to day strain of fertility treatment inside medical life. Dr Stacey Killick speaks plainly about seven weeks of spotting, the choice to keep working through calls, and the uneasy way pregnancy only starts to feel real after time has passed.
A calm, practical look at self-care starting over in small steps.
This episode keeps its focus on the strain of self-care when motherhood and medicine keep pulling in different directions. Dr. Amanda Chisholm is candid about struggling to ask for help, finding vulnerability hard, and ending up depleted, anxious, and trying to catch up later.
A practical look at village-building for mothers trying to keep medicine and home moving at once.
This episode follows Joanna Abiola with a clear eye for the ordinary work of building a village when medicine already takes so much of the day.
A frank look at boundaries, guilt, and the cost of trying to meet every demand.
This conversation centers on the pressure of choosing between patients and children, and on how women often carry the emotional load alongside everyone else's expectations. It stays focused on boundaries, self-worth, and the toll of trying to meet constant demands. Dr.
A clear, practical look at pay inequality and the childcare fixes medicine still resists.
This episode takes the gender pay gap in medicine seriously from the start, and the opening claim that male doctors make as much as 18% more than women sets the tone.
A clear, practical look at the strain of returning to medicine after maternity leave.
Mothers in Medicine treats the return to work after maternity leave as a frank and useful conversation about exhaustion, anxiety, and the pressure to feel fully present in two demanding places at once.
A candid post-baby burnout story about recovery, self-talk, and therapy.
The episode traces burnout after a baby arrives, and its strongest thread is the way a changed relationship and a harsh inner voice show up together.
A candid conversation about twins, eclampsia, and how being a patient changes a doctor.
Zoe Barber comes across as thoughtful, and the episode is at its best when it treats medicine and motherhood as work that never really gets tidy.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Morning medical evidence, compressed for practice.
Medical research, translated through patient experience.
A house officer in surgery begins with a tired memory from a horrific one in three on-call rota.
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Dr Shola opens by setting out the pressure of training, family, and timing.
Dr Abena Bubbers-Jones talks about how medicine can feel very different from what you expect at the start.
Dr Shola opens the episode with a conversation about motherhood and medicine.
A doctor talks with Dr Scholler about breastfeeding at work and the realities facing doctors trying to keep going.
Dr Stacey Killick shares her fertility treatment experience with honesty and clarity.
Dr Amanda Chisholm talks about making room for self-care as a mother in medicine.
An obstetrics consultant and mother of three discusses how mothers in medicine can build their village - the support networks essential for balancing demanding medical careers with parenthood.
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Dr Shola opens with the pressure of being a mother and a doctor.
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A doctor describes burnout that arrived quietly and was easy to miss.