The Family Behind Family Medicine is an oral history project created by Dr. Benjamin Popokh that explores the experiences of the family members who support, influence, and share in the lives of family physicians
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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 reciprocal relationships between physicians and those closest to them. Participants describe the many rol
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 Thomas shares how childhood house calls alongside his father inspired him to return home and practice in
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 the History of Familiy Medicine and the AAFP Foundation. This item is protected by U.S. copyrig
