517: Dayna Parish Dennis: The Only Black Student in Med School
Dayna Parish Dennis is a wife, Shameless Mom, and doctor. Originally from Oklahoma, she relocated to the Bay Area to complete her residency in pediatrics. She has served patients in low income, urgent care, private practice, and Hospitalist settings, and just recently made partner at a multi-specialty group practice in the Bay Area.\xa0She speaks a couple of languages, loves reading books with happy endings, and raising 2 free Black children.\nListen in to hear Dayna share:\n\nWhat it\u2019s like to be a doctor in this pandemic\n\nHow she\u2019s managing her mental health as a physician, wife, mom, and woman during this time\n\nWhat it was like to be the only Black person in her medical school class\n\nThe pressure of being the sole Black representative in conversations around race\n\nThe relief she found in moving from Oklahoma to Oakland for residency and to work with other Black doctors\n\nHow her employer (Kaiser Permanente) responded to George Floyd\u2019s death and supported the Black Lives Matter movement\n\nThe benefits she\u2019s seeing in living through this pandemic and why we need not desire going \u201cback to normal\u201d\n\nThe power in making partner in her medical practice this year\n\nThe legacy she is building to show her daughters that Black girls can do anything\n\n\nLinks Mentioned:\n\nConnect with Dayna\n\nIG: @wittyacronym\n\nIG: @bookish.black.nerd\n\nFB: Dayna Parish Dennis\n\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices