REPLAY: From panic attacks to beautiful artwork. Medicine is artistry for this doc #285

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

Career, Education, Doctor, Medicine, Careers, Job, Business, Health & Fitness, Finance, Investing, Premed, Black, Money, Lifestyle, Mindset

4.9 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Dr. Lucie Mitchell is a long time listener of Docs Outside. She joins Dr. Nii today to share her story about how a major panic attack in the last 3 months of residency training led her to pay off $70,000 of student loan debt in less than a year and turn medicine into art. Things to expect in this episode: How a debt-induced panic attack and a phone call with Dr. Renée resulted in an aggressive loan repaym...

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1:14.0	What's good, everyone. This is Dr. Ney. We have a longtime listener on the show today. We have
1:20.4	Dr. Lucy Mitchell. Dr. Lucy, welcome to Docs Outside the Box. What's good? How you doing?
1:25.3	Hey, thank you. Very happy to be here.
1:28.4	I'm a longtime listener, a longtime fan. I've known your wife forever. You were just a bald head that I
1:34.5	seen far away one day. And now you just hear my voice every now and then. Yep, that's right.
1:41.4	Well, I really love connecting with longtime listeners.
1:45.9	I used to listen to radio when I was younger, particularly like Hot 97 and so forth.
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