43. Private surgery practice with your spouse, waiting to have kids until after residency, and the challenges of female mentorship with Dr. Nicole Basa

"I think we're so geared on the next step - what do I have to do next, I need to complete this before I get to the next step, then this will make me happy. I think we're constantly doing that to ourselves and we don't even know what happy means or what we wanted. My husband and I sat down, we were at Red Robins getting french firies and burgers, and we looked at each other and were like 'Is this what we worked our whole lives to be? This is not great. This is not that fun'."

This episode is with Dr. Nicole Basa who is a private practice general and bariatric surgeon in Austin , Texas.

In this episode we talk about:

- Female mentorship in surgery (spoiler alert, it wasn't always positive)

- How she thought about having a child in surgical residency vs not

- Getting pregnant with her first child while she was in the thick of starting a private surgical practice with her husband

- Starting a private practice with her husband and what it's like working with your husband

- The logistics of owning a practice with your spouse when you have to deal with the unpredictability of childcare (daycare illnesses...)

- and so much more!

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Connect with Dr. Nicole Basa:

- Instagram @nicolebasamd

- Her practice B+A Medical Center