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A Pediatric Neurosurgeon on Leaving the Traditional Path
At 2 p.m. on a Friday, three days after finishing his neurosurgery fellowship, Dr. Stacey Podkovik got an email asking him to cover the Fourth of July. His family had planned a trip for six months. They canceled it, and on his first day as an attending, he saved a four-year-old's life.
On this episode of the I Am Wiser Podcast with Dr. Laura Purdy, Dr. Laura talks with Dr. Stacey, a pediatric neurosurgeon, about leaving the academic track nobody trains you to leave. When the jobs were in other states, he chose to stay in Miami and build a different kind of career: credentials at six…
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