Ten Things I've Learned as a Doctor: Where Art Meets Medicine
Over 20 years into medicine, I sat down and wrote a list. Not a treatment plan or a chart note. A list of the things this work has actually taught me. The lessons that stayed.
Some of them I expected. Most of them I did not.
Here is what made the page:
Healing takes time.
Listening matters.
Every scar has a story.
Precision is important. Compassion is essential.
Confidence is part of health.
Small changes make a big impact.
Trust is built in the details.
No two journeys are the same.
Medicine is art and science.
Helping someone feel whole is the reward.
I am a board-certified OB-GYN. I have spent my professional life caring for women through pregnancies, surgeries, losses, and the long arc of routine visits that turn into real relationships. None of that came down to lab values alone. It taught me about people. Stories. Trust.
That is the thread running through every line on the list.
Healing Is Never Only Physical
Medical training is precise by design. We measure, we test, we follow the evidence. I am grateful for that rigor, and I rely on it every day.
But the longer I practice, the clearer one thing becomes. Healing is emotional, personal, and deeply human. A patient can have a perfect surgical outcome and still not feel like herself. The chart can say recovered while the person is still waiting to feel whole.
That space, between recovered and whole, is where so much of the real work lives.
Where the List Led Me
This is also why I do the work I do at Posh MD Studio.
When I discovered 3D areola restoration, the lessons on that list stopped being abstract. Every scar has a story. Precision is important, compassion is essential. Trust is built in the details. Restoration after breast cancer asks for all of it at once: the steady hands of a technician and the understanding of a clinician who knows what a patient has already been through.
I did not leave medicine to do this. I still practice as a full-time OB-GYN, and medicine remains the foundation of everything I do. The studio is something I do alongside my practice, not instead of it. The two are separate, but they come from the same place. Medicine is art and science. So is this.
Helping someone feel whole again is, after all this time, still the reward.
If You Are Considering Restoration
You do not have to have it all figured out. When the timing feels right, there is a place where the medical side and the artistic side are not separated, where the person caring for you understands the whole picture.
Posh MD Studio offers consultations with no pressure and no obligation. Just a conversation, whenever you are ready. You can reach out through the website or send a message on Instagram.