LEADING BY EXAMPLE IN THE WORLD OF MEDICINE WITH DR. TISHA BOSTON
In life, you meet people who just seem to have a profound impact on everyone around them. Thirty-something years ago, I met someone like that in South Carolina: Dr. Tisha Boston
Dr. Boston grew up in the projects of South Carolina. Now, she’s a board-certified family medicine physician practicing in Columbia, SC who has spent her career educating young physicians and medical students. And it’s taken her to the positions of Vice Chair of Operations and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Prisma Health.
In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, you’ll see how Dr. Boston keeps it real with her medical residents and why she’s such a great leadership example for those in healthcare. She’ll reveal how she views the role of physician and the importance of self-care in helping to balance the work you do with the rest of your life.
6:16 - Why Dr. Boston loves to train and advise medical residents
11:18 - Keeping it real and the greatest gift and responsibility for physicians
19:03 - How Dr. Boston approaches work-life balance
28:01 - Dr. Boston’s qualities that equip her to be the type of leader she is
38:26 - The big turning point that allowed me to embrace who I am
43:39 - How the last two years have been an awakening for Dr. Boston
47:47 - What Dr. Boston dreams for her kids and herself