I Couldn't Run a Mile in Residency. #477
Docs Outside The Box
Dr. Nii Darko
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So by the 30 of my general surgery residency at Morehouse, I tried to get back in shape. |
| 0:05.3 | And I started off by trying to run a mile. And I quickly realized that I may have been in over my head because trying to run a mile, I almost threw up. |
| 0:17.6 | And what I realize is that all of those 24-hour shifts where I developed that ritual where at the end of my 24-hour shift I would go and get McDonald's, yeah, that was catching up to me. |
| 0:29.3 | So I was a general surgery resident. |
| 0:32.7 | You know, I'm a doctor. |
| 0:33.4 | I know that, you know, you need sleep. |
| 0:35.1 | I know that you have to eat well. |
| 0:36.9 | But I knew what to do, but I didn't |
| 0:39.1 | know necessarily how to do it. Those are two separate things, knowing what to do and how to do it, |
| 0:44.5 | or two separate things. So today we're answering the question that every doctor asked, but no one |
| 0:50.7 | talks about honestly, which is how do you actually make time for fitness when medicine takes everything from you? |
| 0:58.2 | And spoiler alert, it took me into my mid-40s until I figured it out. |
| 1:03.8 | If you're new here, welcome back to docs outside the box. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm Ney and... |
| 1:09.0 | Dr. Renee. |
| 1:10.2 | So listen, we're first-generation doctors. I'm Gagn and Dr. Renee. So listen, we're first generation doctors. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm Ganyin. |
| 1:14.9 | Hey, Shan, hey, man. |
| 1:16.3 | Hey, boy, boy. |
| 1:16.6 | How you, Shely? |
| 1:19.5 | So we didn't have the doctor parents to answer the questions that we had when we're going through medical school and residency. |
| 1:27.8 | So we're creating the podcast that we wish we had. |
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