Being a physician shapes your life. When you change your relationship to medicine, it can feel tender, disorienting, and sometimes scary.
In this episode, Drs. Jessie Mahoney and Ni-Cheng Liang explore physician identity beyond medicine. They do not offer a neat “leave medicine” story. Instead, they make room for the many paths women physicians take: staying in medicine, practicing differently, reducing clinical work, changing settings, or allowing other parts of life to become more visible.
Ni-Cheng shares how breast cancer led her to prioritize health, circadian rhythm, and a more sustainable way of practicing medicine. Jessie shares why identity shifts often bring both grief and relief at the same time.
This conversation is for the physician who wonders whether she will still matter if she changes her work. For the physician who loves medicine but no longer wants it to consume their life. For the physician who does not yet know her next chapter, but knows something is ready to expand.
You can honor the physician you are and make room for who else you are becoming.
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*Nothing shared in the Healing Medicine Podcast is medical advice. The Healing Medicine Podcast was formerly known as the Mindful Healers Podcast.