Dr. Lisa Whitty Bradley, MD talks to Dr. Justin Trosclair DC on A Doctor's Perspective Podcast. Patient and doctor advocate Dr. Lisa Whitty Bradley MD created chicks with mds based on her own experience from both sides. She hold nothing back when discussing the pitfalls and positives of insurance, misconceptions and relationships. Full of good stories and laughter on this episode. Dr. Bradley starts off discussing how she got into hand surgery as well as breast reconstruction surgery. As she says several times throughout the interview, plastic surgeons aren’t just breast and butt cosmetic elective surgeries. Mid way through the interview she will discuss the misconceptions as well as the bread and butter cases. Were you aware that it is a federal mandate to reconstruct a breast after it has been removed of cancer, both sides actually so they stay symmetric. Part of her passion with chickswithmd’s is that doctors need to fight so that patients can get services covered. Too often a patient is not even aware of the limitations in their own insurance policies. There are 3 ways to be a hand surgeon and the main focus is restoring function and preserving surgical technique. Race and Gender Dr. Lisa breaks down what it was like growing up in Broklyn in the 80s. She discusses the go getter - defiant (in a good way) family she and northerns typically have when charting your life path. Her family was thriving even when larger society was saying you should not be. Then we get her views on people of color from the South and the generational mindsets that must be overcome and how she sees it changing over her work career as well as young people and migration influence. One phrase she used is accepted segregation. (don’t worry, it doesn’t get political) Look at life and situations with an Outside The Box mentality. Just because you don’t see someone like you in a field doesn’t mean you can’t be the first. How did Chicks With MD’s Come About and the Mission A health condition required her to restructure her career and evaluate how to be a physician, mother and spouse. Once she became a patient with a difficult prognosis and treatment regimen, she started identifying the pitfalls in the system as a patient as well as the divide between what a doctor says and what a patient hears. She set out to remedy this situation for others. Inform, Educate, Empower Focus not just on treating disease but on making their existence better. Remember we are treating a person, not XYZ condition. They have jobs, hobbies and families that they want to get back to. How does you market to find speaking opportunities? Why does she choose to do short videos for social media? When discussing breast reduction surgery, doctors should ask more questions. Maybe the patient thinks she is just tired of back pain for the past 18 months but didn’t realize the car accident she had 18 months ago and never got treatment for is the actual cause of her symptoms. Advocacy is not just grabbing a bullhorn and putting signs up for breast cancer month. She discusses the good things she has learned and the pitfalls in other scenarios (like disability insurance) to other doctors so they can learn from someone’s experience. Briefly we mention the struggle of being a doctor with a disability and getting hired. When you as a doctor do other activities and patients see that you are involve...