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Always On Guard: The ER Physician's Fertility Journey
This episode is part of the series on why certain specialties make the fertility journey uniquely painful. Today Dr. Erica turns her attention to emergency medicine physicians and the particular combination of shift work, hyper vigilance, trauma exposure, and altered sleep that makes this one of the hardest lines of work to be in while trying to build a family.
This episode is for the ER doc who is brilliant under pressure at work and exhausted by what that costs her everywhere else.
In this episode:
How shift work disrupts the circadian rhythm, increases inflammation, and keeps the body in a…
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