#169: Dr. Lynette Charity: Fixing People & Lifting Them Up

<p><strong>OVERVIEW:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner and Host of the</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">podcast chats with Dr. Lynette Charity, MD, anesthesiologist and keynote speaker. Dr. Charity shares her own struggles with fatigue and depression after a long career in private practice. She gives advice on how to continuously pivot your career and the value of coaching as you make these shifts. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Charity was one of the first African Americans to attend a white high school in Virginia. She was also a first generation college student and went on to become a doctor. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her goal was family practice. She did an externship in anesthesiology and went into OB and Neuro anesthesia. She was an Army captain and eventually joined a private practice. Dr. Charity’s motto: adapt your career to the times. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">She knew medicine was her calling. She also knew it wasn’t supposed to kill you. Her coping mechanisms were uprooted and her depression blew up. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">After forty years as a private practitioner, Dr. Charity was fatigued and frustrated. As a result, she became a standup comedian talking about anesthesiologist comedy, what it’s like being a black female and depression. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Charity believes it’s cathartic to share self-deprecating humor and to realize the world is okay if you can laugh.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">She began giving TED talks to let physicians know about the realities of depression and having suicidal thoughts. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Physicians are not exempt from suicidal ideation. Dr. Charity shares how hearing her mother