Dr. Ashwini Bapat is a palliative care doctor, writer, and co-Founder of Hippocratic Adventures, a community of US-trained physicians practicing and dreaming of practicing medicine outside the US. She is also the founder of EpioneMD which provides virtual serious illness coaching and advance care planning to individuals and telepalliative care consultations to healthcare organizations.
She completed her training in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Care at Yale University. She then worked as an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and was an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. In August 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, she and her family moved from the US to Portugal to live out their dream of living abroad.
In this amazing episode, Dr. Bapat weaves the story of her transition off the groomed academic track to getting creative about her career. She found herself putting off establishing roots and dreaming of what it would be like to create a different path for herself, her career, and for her family. Listen in to how she moved from feeling shackled to free to explore. She found working from an internal motivation to contribute to something bigger than herself, that creating a community supplemented her long-term love of connection and culture. Listen in for the details and what supported her personal well-being.
Pearls of Wellness Wisdom:
1. Create a space to dream: Think about the life you want to live!
2. You won't find the life you want if you follow another person's path.
3. This new path can be lonely, but it is unique to you.
4. Find like-minded people to share the journey with you.
You can join the private Hippocratic Adventures Facebook page (>6K strong) at https://www.facebook.com/groups/hippocraticadventures
