The Family Behind Family Medicine with Dr. Benjamin Popokh, MD

What does it mean to build a life with someone whose calling is family medicine? In this episode, spouses and partners of family physicians share their experiences navigating medical school, residency, practice, and family life. Through stories of sacrifice, loneliness, resilience, financial challenges, career flexibility, and finding community, they reflect on the realities of supporting a physician whose commitment to patients often extends beyond the clinic. Despite the challenges, these families

The Family Behind Family Medicine is an oral history project made possible by a grant from the Center for the History of Family Medicine. Dr. Benjamin Popokh explores explores one of the most essential yet underexamined dimensions of family medicine: the influence of physicians' families on their personal and professional lives. Through six episodes featuring interviews with family members of family physicians from diverse practice settings across the United States, the series examines the

Episode 2: Who Gets Called?Why do some children of family physicians follow in their parents’ footsteps while others choose a different path? In this episode of The Family Behind Family Medicine, host Benjamin Popokh explores the many routes that lead people toward, and away from, family medicine. Through stories from physicians, nurses, physician assistants, healthcare leaders, and trainees, listeners hear how growing up around family medicine shapes lives in unexpected ways. Dr. Russell

This first episode of The Family Behind Family Medicine explores what it is like to grow up as the child of a family physician. Hosted by Benjamin Popokh, the episode features interviews with children of family doctors from communities across the United States. They describe seeing their parents as people who could "fix" others, witnessing the demands of medical practice, helping in clinics and hospitals, and sharing their parents with entire communities. Made possible by a grant from the Center for