816. A Day in the Life of a Doctor with Dr. Erika Blank

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dr. Erica Blank graduated from medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx in 1996. She then completed a residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She moved to New Hampshire in 2012 where she worked at Exeter Hospital and developed an interest in Lifestyle Medicine. She realized that all of her training in medicine up to that point was about treating disease and she never learned how to promote health. Erika became board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine in 2017.

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0:00.0	Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.3	I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:16.1	Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work
0:22.2	they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. On Fridays, I interview an
0:28.6	individual with many years of experience from one of the top-ranked occupations or professions
0:33.9	who share an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:39.0	I realized that I was seeing patient after patient, and they were on 10 medicines, maybe more.
0:46.3	They couldn't keep them straight. I couldn't keep them straight.
0:49.7	And they all had diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol.
0:53.4	They may have had a heart attack in the
0:55.0	past. And what I didn't realize was that it didn't have to be that way. They didn't have to
1:02.6	have type 2 diabetes. They didn't have to have those heart attacks. You know, those things could
1:07.4	have been prevented if they had been leading more healthy lives beforehand.
1:12.2	And I realized after practicing for 18 years that all I had ever been taught in medical school
1:19.5	and in residency was how to treat diseases.
1:23.8	We never learned how to keep people healthy.
1:28.0	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Dr. Erica Blank, and our topic of the day,
1:34.1	a day in the life, what is really like to be a physician.
1:37.5	So welcome, Dr. Blank.
1:39.3	Thank you.
1:40.2	It's my pleasure to be here to talk to you tonight.
1:43.1	All righty.
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