Hera the Light of Women Podcast

Laleh Hancock, Hera Board Advisor and Host, speaks with Kellie Stecher, OBGYN and Co-Founder & President of Patient Care Heroes, about women’s health, mental health and truly listening to patients, so they are heard! Kellie says, “Be the best version of you to heal”. Kellie Stecher is an OBGYN and Co-Founder and President of Patient Care Heroes, as well as the Governor of the 7th district of the American Medical Women’s Association, and advisor to multiple other companies focusing on patient and staff safety, and mental health She has won the Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine’s Top Doctors’ Rising Star award for the last three years. She was recently runner up for The Sharp Index: Physician Well-being Leader of the Year. She also won a silver Anthem Award. Her work has made her an invaluable contributor to both local and national publications, news, and podcasts. Her focus is on advocacy and policy change, centering around safety and equity. She is the author of the book, “Delivering”, which is out now. The book is meant to empower women, mothers, working women, women in healthcare, and to inspire change. Link

Beyond the Paper Gown Podcast

Women have borne the brunt of the COVID 19 pandemic, and no where is that more evident than in health care.  In today’s episode, we speak with Kellie Stecher, MD, an OBGYN and advocate for healthcare workers and for women’s equity.  She’s the author of Delivering in which she records her journey through high school, medical training and clinical practice, marriage and motherhood.  Join us in this candid conversation about mental health, power politics and gender bias in the workplace,  and how women can take action to help themselves, no matter what their profession. Kellie Stecher is an  OBGYN and Co-Founder and President of Patient Care Heroes, as well as the Governor of the 7th district of the American Medical Women’s Association, and advisor to multiple other companies focusing on patient and staff safety, and mental health She has won the Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine’s Top Doctors’ Rising Star award for the last three years. She was recently runner up for The Sharp Index: Physician Well-being Leader of the Year.  She also won a silver Anthem Award. Her work has made her an invaluable contributor to both local and national publications, news, and podcasts. Her focus is on advocacy and policy change, centering around safety and equity. She is the author of the book, Delivering, which is out now.  The book is meant to empower women, mothers, working women, women in healthcare, and to inspire change. .

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Physician Shortages

At a time when more doctors are leaving then ever before, more then 70 percent are burned out, and an estimated 75 percent may leave in the next 5 years…

Shortages will only get worse, we continue to force physicians out, we haven’t increased residency match spots, and continue to saddle people with loans. Link to study

Practice Status

In case anyone was wondering where I disappeared to, here is a news article about what happened. I’ve temporarily started working in Winona, MN. If you would like an appointment, please call 1-507-457-7701 and request me specifically.

Beckers Healthcare Podcast Rankings

Thank you to Scott Becker and Beckers Healthcare Podcast, for giving me the opportunity to speak to all of your listeners. The 7th most listened to podcast is a great place to be!

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Delivering

Let’s face it – the moment you realize you need a doctor is a feeling like no other. Our trust, complicity and will to get better takes over. We need them, and we need them now.

But what about the highly trained woman behind your appointment; your female MD. What does she need, and what has she been through to get where she is today?

When it comes to physicians, we easily forget ourselves. And with female physicians, the ladder is even harder to climb.

Kellie Stecher MD has the courage to speak out. It’s the truth we’ve been waiting for. Could the key to healing healthcare be to fix the gender and racial inequalities that exist?

This dynamic mum-of-two discusses the psychological costs of being a woman physician in today’s world. And what actually happened when the virus came?

So many women in the medical profession have a tale to tell. But when this Minnesota OBGYN opens up about her whole journey from childhood to MD – her very unique story makes it impossible to put down this book.

This ground-breaking account will inform educate and help all to experience the extraordinary psychological pressures female physicians live through in order that you may live life to the full. Available for purchase on Kindle or Paperback at Amazon