Doctor NOS
This is a non-profit, limited series podcast hosted by Dr. Maple Goh providing career guidance, leadership and role-modelling to resident doctors for medical and non-medical pathways. The main objectives are to increase accessibility to different careers within medicine, and to promote visibility of our marginalised and minority doctors. This podcast was funded by the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) Education Trust.
Doctor NOS
22 | Dr. Michelle Chen on grief, shifting specialties, general practice & rural medicine
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Dr Michelle Chen is a current GP and rural & remote medicine trainee working on the Gold Coast, Australia. She was an aspiring paediatric surgeon, working all over Australia and New Zealand. Personal tragedy struck in 2019 when she became a carer to her GP husband who was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. She is an advocate for young-onset bowel cancer, raising awareness through Bowel Cancer Australia and her daily practice. She is embarking on Rural Medicine ACRRM Fellowship with advanced skills in surgery, hoping to provide endoscopy and colonoscopy services to rural and remote areas. Her husband, Dr. Sean Mitchell, a passionate general practitioner and aged only 36, sadly passed away in April 2021.
In this episode, we discuss her journey in medicine shifting gears from paediatric surgery to general practice and rural medicine, being a full-time carer for her husband, the grief and early loss of her husband Dr. Sean Mitchell to metastatic bowel cancer, work-life balance, and her reflections on her journey so far.
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As always, if you have any feedback or queries, or if you would like to get in touch with the speaker, feel free to get in touch at doctornos@pm.me.
Audio credit:
Bliss by Luke Bergs https://soundcloud.com/bergscloud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/33DJFs9
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/e9aXhBQDT9Y