Episode Details

Top 5 Topics:

- Shocking Residency & Job Discrimination Against Women Surgeons

- Fired While Pregnant With Twins After IVF

- Burnout, Boundaries & Toxic Patient Entitlement

- Wisdom Teeth Debate: Remove Early or Wait?

- Big City vs Rural Doctor Life: High Pay, Low Stress

Quotes & Wisdom:

Erin Sheffield: "Sometimes it's less about how you look and more about seeing yourself in the values that they're promoting, the lifestyle that they are living... finding someone who's in alignment with your values."

Sarah Harding: "You can start from ground zero, but why not have somebody there that has done it before you that you can look at and say, okay, I can build from there."

Sarah Harding: "My goal is to work a couple of days a week, not full time, because I really enjoy spending time with my kids."

Sarah Harding (on residency discrimination): "He said, and I've heard that you want to be a wife and a mother. And if that's the case, you should cut your losses and cut the Navy's losses, and leave now." (Dr. Harding was single and not dating at the time)

Erin Sheffield (on being fired while on maternity leave with twins): "You never think after doing like 13 years of training that you're going to be dropping off job applications at Burger King collecting your $600 unemployment check because you're the breadwinner for your family of 4."

Erin Sheffield: "It might actually be more expensive to maintain the wisdom teeth... So it's actually cheaper to bite the bullet, get out on your young teenager before you even have the complications."

Questions:

01:43 "Who came up with that name by the way? Who's so clever!"

06:29 "Did you guys ever experience burnout like any day to day in the beginning, right now, in this moment, maybe today?"

10:34 "Is it true that patients are getting less polite? Maybe people are just getting less polite in general, but like the rudeness."

24:03 "How many days a week are you working? How you're managing that on top of having a family."

26:50 "When did you have your kids? Did you have it while you were in residency or dental school?"

01:04:14 "When you do IV sedations, what medications do you like to use?"

Now available on:

- Dr. Gallagher’s Podcast & YouTube Channel

- Dose of Dental Podcast #235

My watch in this episode = Citizen Promaster Diver Day Date

- 5.2026

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