How Writing Helped This Doctor Mom Climb Out of Burnout with Dr. Farah Deshmukh

Episode 96: How Writing Helped This Doctor Mom Climb Out of Burnout with Dr. Farah Deshmukh

Topics Covered

• Meet Dr. Farah Deshmukh: Obesity Medicine Physician, Mom, and Children’s Book Author
• Why Pediatric Obesity and Early Food Habits Matter So Much
• Teaching Healthy Eating Habits to Kids Without Food Shame
• Helping Kids Make Better Food Choices in a World Full of Goldfish and Pizza
• Simple Ways Busy Moms Can Model Healthy Eating at Home
• How One Physician Mom Turned Burnout Into a Creative Outlet
• A New Way to Think About “This Isn’t Working Anymore”
• Why Physician Moms Need a Creative Outlet Beyond Work and Parenting
• Encouraging Kids to Build a Healthy Relationship with Food from an Early Age

“Even if it’s 10 minutes, take it for yourself because you need it.”

That is a powerful statement, spoken by Dr. Farah Deshmukh in this episode. She is an obesity medicine physician, mom, and children’s book author who found an unexpected path out of burnout.

For many physician moms, life becomes all about taking care of everyone else. After a while, it can feel like the authentic version of yourself has been packed away in a box somewhere high on a shelf.

You think, I’ll come back to it someday when work slows down or the kids get older – when I have more time. But “someday” is a moving target.

In this inspiring conversation, Dr. Farah shares how writing children’s books became an unexpected form of self-care for a physician mom, and how creativity helped her feel more like herself again.

Find the full transcript and bonus resources for physician moms at inspiredmommds.com/96.

Find the full transcript and bonus resources for physician moms at inspiredmommds.com/96.

Meet Dr. Farah Deshmukh: Obesity Medicine Physician, Mom, and Children’s Book Author

Dr. Cindy: Hi everyone. Thank you so much for returning to Inspired Mom MD's podcast. Today I am joined by a new guest, Dr. Farah Deshmukh, a dual board certified physician in internal medicine and obesity medicine. She completed her residency through a Columbia University affiliated program and later pursued a fellowship in obesity medicine and nutrition at Northwell Health.

She now serves as director of the Obesity and Lifestyle Medicine Program at Hackensack Meridian Health, and is core faculty for an internal medicine residency program. But alongside her work as a physician, Dr. Farah has also followed a creative path inspired by her own children and the food environments they encountered in daycare and school.

She began writing children's books to help kids build a healthier mindset around food from an early age. Today we're talking about not only why those early messages around food matter, but also what it really looks like for a busy doctor mom to bring her creative ideas to life through writing.

Thank you so much for being here today. I'm so happy to have you, Dr. Farah.

Dr. Farah: Thank you for having me.

Dr. Cindy: So, as I just mentioned, you are an expert in internal and obesity medicine and you're part of a residency program, but we're talking about your creative path today, which brings our conversation back to childhood.

Tell us a little about your story. What made you realize that we need to start thinking about this mindset around food a little bit earlier than we maybe typically do?

Dr. Farah: Yeah, so the funny thing is I have had no experience with kids or babies prior to having my first child. So it was primarily how things kind of rolled after I got out of residency, got into my fellowship, obesity and nutrition, which is always an area that I was very interested in, and it was for the first time that I was actually doing nutrition counseling, rather than just signing a referral to register dietician for my patients.

I would sit down with patients, talk through this, counsel them over and over again, and just the basic things. And at the same time I had this baby at home who was growing, you know, trying out different things.

And it made me realize that as a parent, I do have a certain role in my child's life when it comes to what I put on their plate. But at the same time, can I control all of it or some of it, right? So, when I heard about things like the pediatric obesity rates, this is primarily from the fact that I was studying for my obesity medicine boards.

Why Pediatric Obesity and Early Food Habits Matter So Much

I was doing so much research work and statistics. I was also doing my master's in public health where I took a nutrition course and where I learned statistics and it was very shocking and disheartening to see that pediatric obesity rates are going up. We had seen fatty liver, the disease and everything in the pediatric population, which is very hurtful in a way as a mom, especially as a first time mother.

And that's when I believe the mindset piece of it kind of started setting in for me. That I was counseling my patients about all these. And all these are adult patients because I'm doing internal medicine at the same time as the child at home who is going to grow and eventually eat whatever they want, right?

So, that was kind of the mindset piece. I guess that's what the seed would be to start off.

Dr. Cindy: So you were learning all about the statistics and the impact on adults, and you're like, wait a minute, what about this little baby I have at home who’s going to have their own choices in the future. What can you do about that now?

Dr. Farah: Exactly. Yeah. So it was that piece of it that is, and also looking back in my own childhood growing up.

We had certain things in our house that were just a part of our life. It was very normal to open my freezer and find, let's say, red meat in there. That's just culturally how I grew up.

And when I talk to my patients and I tell them, look, I want you to start switching this to this, and they look at me all confused, like, what are you talking about? This is how I grew up. And I understand now, but back then I did not, that this is how life has been for them and this is how their childhood has changed their mindset.

And now they are a 50 or 60-year-old coming in trying to fix their diabetes and obesity, but the core actually started way before.

And that whole realization as a mom makes you think that, oh my God, can I do something about this?

Dr. Cindy: That's such an interesting point. I'm thinking about how you grew up definitely influences what you eat five, six decades later. But also there's a cultural aspect to it – what food was in your house, and of course that would carry on too.

And you remind me, when I was little, I would eat Pop-Tarts for breakfast, and that was just, you know, I think my mom was at work. I was a latchkey kid, so I think I got myself out in the morning, got myself in it in the afternoon, and I just ate whatever I wanted. I just grazed.

Teaching Healthy Eating Habits to Kids Without Food Shame

Dr. Cindy: So looking forward, when we talk about helping kids today set a new mindset, what does that actually look like in real life? What does that mean?

Dr. Farah: So I guess, and I’m not a pediatrician to begin with.

Dr. Cindy: Right. Just in your experience, Dr. Farah: My experience being a mom, for the child is, if they see their parents ordering takeout, for example, very often, I guess that becomes a part of their life.

I’ll give you my child’s example. They have on Fridays they have pizza and not pizza days at daycare. So it’s like. Hey, mom, can you get me pizza? So, you know, you can order the takeout every now and then. The pizza is coming every now and then. But then they normalize it. They think that, oh, every Friday I should be getting Dominoes or pizza, right?

So, at the same time, how can I tackle that piece as a mom who’s trying to get my kid to eat right? In my personal case, what I started doing was make my own pizza. But as a busy mom, it’s often hard to start from scratch, right?

So I would do things like, I would get a pita bread and I would put my own toppings on it and I would get my kid involved. I have two boys, but I don’t know if that changes anything there, but I tried to get them more in the kitchen.

Not them, I should say. My younger one is only one. My older one now is four, but he is the one who got me into the whole creative book writing piece of it. And now I get them more involved in the kitchen, do this, do that, and make it more playful for him.

I guess, you know, in the grand scheme of things, if you think about it as moms, we have a big role, or as parents I should say, we do have a very huge role in changing the mindset of our kids from the beginning. Now, things change over time, right? I don’t know if my child will continue to eat “healthy” 10 years down the line and that piece of it again would start somewhere here, you will start learning about it.

Helping Kids Make Better Food Choices in a World Full of Goldfish and Pizza

Dr. Farah: One piece that I feel that really hit me was when my child came home and said, “I want goldfish.”

I have never even had goldfish in my house. I knew at that point that as a baby, I had so much control, so much love for this little human being, and I’m doing everything to control everything around him and do everything right, but then you get this sudden sense of “loss of control”.

That I cannot actually control everything that’s in his life, but I learned to make peace with it. That you cannot control what your child would eat as a teenager in college. You know how we ate, we ate garbage in college, let’s be honest about it. I cannot control that piece of it.

But at the same time, I said, look, I can’t do anything about the goldfish. I can’t do anything about the granola bars. They will be there, but can I teach my child the basics, the very basics of making the right choice. You know, and that, I feel is where kind of the thought came that, oh, maybe I could do something about this.

Dr. Cindy: That is such a great point that kids as young as four are exposed to food at their daycare at their school, and they will always be exposed to those foods, you know, all these different unhealthy options. You’re right, it’s out of your control. You can’t reach out and tell the people at the school don’t serve this. And maybe that would be a disservice, you know, if you took away all of that, because then kids wouldn’t know that they need to make their own healthy choices.

Dr. Farah: Absolutely.

Simple Ways Busy Moms Can Model Healthy Eating at Home

Dr. Cindy: And it really sounds like you’re modeling how to do that at home and not putting a lot of extra pressure on them by saying, I have not heard you once say, “That is bad. Don’t do that.”

What I’ve heard you say is that you’re modeling healthy behaviors for your kids.

Dr. Farah: And I think that is something important. Just looking at the statistics, you can say that we really need to do something about this. And it’s not only the pediatric statistics, but also the adult statistics.

Like I was saying earlier, this is something that started years ago that they have adapted over time.

And I also felt as I was going through this process, kind of reflecting on all of this a few years ago when I started doing this as it’s the small things that are happening. It’s the small, I guess the fried things that your mom or someone is cooking every day or something of that sort is a very subtle change that becomes a part of our life and we don’t notice it until there’s a big change out there. Kids are very smart. That’s the other piece.

Dr. Cindy: That’s true.

Dr. Farah: Very smart. Even as a 2-year-old, you tell them something and they would actually catch on to your words and go on and do something with it. You would be just shocked by them.

But that’s where it was for my particular case, it was my kid’s love for reading. He has been obsessed with books and the bright colors of board books from a very young age and started reading quite early based on what his teachers told me.

My whole house would be filled with just children’s books everywhere.

For me, it was that piece – if I can leverage that to teach my child how to eat or what better choices to make when it comes to food, I would really like to do that. But of course, I had absolutely no background in publishing or whatever, so I thought, oh, you know this is not for me. I’m just going to talk with them and try to teach them. But that didn’t really go well.

How One Physician Mom Turned Burnout Into a Creative Outlet

Dr. Cindy: So, tell us how you did that transition. What made you step into actually writing one of those books that are in your house?

Dr. Farah: Yes. I guess, you know, it was multiple things. So I’m going every day to work and I’m doing my obesity medicine fellowship and talking to my patients and I’m counseling them right and left. Like, you need to pay better choices and this and that.

And then, coming home, I’m trying to make food choices for myself, my family, my kid, and I’m trying to make choices in my head about what to buy for grocery. You know, kind of that whole mindset over there.

At the same time I hear my child say that I ate goldfish at school, which is infuriating, but like you said, I’m not going to go to the school and I’m not going to be one of those parents that you can’t give goldfish to my child but the rest of the class. No way.

Dr. Cindy: Right?

Dr. Farah: So, I thought, let me search this up.

And I am, I’ll be very honest, I’m very thrifty. I did not plan on spending a lot of money on looking into publishers and things like that. You know, the traditional path, not that I knew anything about a traditional path.

I just researched how to write children’s books. Or how I looked at some of the children’s books that my kid was reading at the back, who are the publishers, started searching these things up. It kind of started just learning how this goes.

We are physicians, we all learn things. So, digging into it I came across Amazon, KDP.

Again, I’d never heard of it, so I started looking into it and I went on YouTube. There is so much on YouTube, it’s crazy that we didn’t know about it. So there are tutorials on how to go about the whole process, how to get the book published.

And I said, let me do this. I had some PTO time off between ending my fellowship and starting my job.

So I took this complete PTO to carve out several weeks. I said, okay, I wanna learn this. I wanna do this. It seems like fun. And I actually started my draft.

So it depends. If you want to just write a simple book, you can just go an MS word and write up your book and make a PDF. But I wanted the bright colors because that’s what my child liked, the bright colors, the paint things in something.

I tried a PowerPoint that didn’t go well. It was a very, very strong learning curve, I should say. So I eventually found Canva. That worked really well because you can get an illustrator. You can get a publisher, you can look into that piece of it, but I specifically wanted to try Amazon KDP, because I wasn’t investing anything in there, and this was really kind of an experiment for me.

So I made my draft on Canva, went on KDP, did some more learning, and uploaded my file. It got rejected. It got rejected again. And it got rejected mostly for technical reasons, which I had. I had never learned this stuff.

Dr. Cindy: Can I interject?

Dr. Farah: Yeah.

Dr. Cindy: Can you explain what Amazon KDP is? Because that’s what was giving you the rejections, is that right? Just real quick so people understand.

Self-Publishing a Children’s Book While Balancing Medicine and Motherhood

Dr. Farah: So Amazon KDP– basically Amazon has a self-publishing tool, a website that you can go to. It can be anybody really if you want to publish novels, you want to publish children’s books. I think some people even do worksheets, calendars. Really anything.

It is really about if you have self-publishing, if you have an idea and you want to publish it yourself, you can try KDP. The full form I believe is Kindle Direct Publishing. But the “K” I’m not sure, but for self publishing.

Dr. Cindy: Okay. Thank you.

Dr. Farah: So yeah, so I went on and uploaded my Canva file, but got rejected. Why did it get rejected? Because my dimensions – my dimensions were incorrect. So, I messed around with the numbers, paid for Canva this time. Again, the numbers got rejected. And the rejection is so funny that it got rejected for 0.001 millimeter.

Then I learned about the term called bleed, which is basically if you’re uploading a whole picture on your whole page and is going outside a certain outline. When it gets printed, there’s a certain cut that they will do. And they get concerned that it will cut your image even though the image is supposed to be on the whole page.

But I learned through the process again, by trial and error. By the time I had started my work, things got delayed a lot, so I would just leave it. I would come back to it on my bad days, to be very honest with you.

This was my first job, and this is the first time I was seeing patients in 20 minutes, and it was not residency, it was not fellowship.

I was really hitting a point of burnout multiple times. I didn’t know anything about billing. I was learning the billing process. I didn’t know what RVUs were. I was learning all that. It was such a whirlpool for me coming out of training, never learning the basics of how the business side of medicine actually works, that I felt I was hitting burnout.

And I was not even realizing it because again, we don’t get taught much about burnout as trainees.

So, every time I would take some time off just for my mental peace I opened up on Canva, edited my file again, uploaded it, edited again, uploaded it. And eventually I emailed them saying, can you please help me with it, because Amazon basically puts your book through a quality process.

And it was at the quality clearance that they were blocking me, saying that you have subtle errors here and there that you need to fix. But eventually it went through and I was shocked when I got that email that, wow, is this for real? I went to Amazon, I was like, wow, this looks for real. It is just such a surreal movement that did, did I actually do this?

Because you learn the whole process from the beginning to the end. And I still wouldn’t, I was like, okay, let me get an author’s copy. Let me see what this actually is. And the feeling of getting your first author’s copy in your hand and actually seeing your imagination, your thoughts come to life. I could not describe it.

Just to tell you what the book was about. My first book that I did was actually teaching the difference between processed food and unprocessed food, so whole food and processed food.

Another little thing that I learned around the process was when I initially made the book the number of pages, I believe it was 17 or 16. It covered a little topic about how apples are a whole food.

Then you have apple juice, which is processed, and then further processed – ultra processed – is basically what you get in the supermarket where you have, added sugar and additives and other things. So it’s teaching a difference.

The main page is actually an apple, a happy smiling apple. Then I have a glass of juice. And then I have a bottle from the supermarket. It’s all just cartoonish.

When I had that book in my hand, I saw the color, the bright colors and everything. It was just a very surreal feeling. Then I gave it to my kid and he read it and he read it again and read it again.

Oh, actually one thing I forgot to mention was it was 17 pages long and Amazon, KDP didn’t accept it for 17 pages, they needed more. So now I have to sit and think about another topic to add to it. I believe the cutoff is 24 pages, 28 pages. So I added a vegetable. This time it was a potato, how we can make frying potatoes “unhealthy” versus baking it or steaming it.

It really, really pushed me to think creatively, and I love that piece of it. And I feel as physicians, we like the little challenge within us. It’s very innate to us and we enjoy it.

And I was able to get my mind away from everything that I was doing at work and actually get this going. So when my child read that book again, it was done mostly for my kid. I didn’t have any business idea or anything in mind. I did it exclusively just for his learning purposes.

And over time I realized that, okay, I, maybe I can do more — I ended up writing another book and then another, and kind of just really enjoyed the process and probably got good at it.

Dr. Cindy: Oh yes. And it was a process that helped you through some periods of burnout too.

Dr. Farah: It certainly did. Yes..

Dr. Cindy: I’m really curious, when you handed the book to your child, did you tell him Mommy wrote this? Or did you just want to see his reaction?

Dr. Farah: Actually, no. So I made the book with him. Oh, I forgot to tell you that part.

When I was making the Canva book, I actually had him next to me and I said, “Oh, where do you want me to put the apple? What would be right?”

It was such a cute little mom-son moment, that I’ll never forget it.

And actually when I wrote my name, I didn’t think I wanted to give his real name, I think I wrote his initial. So yeah, he was very involved in the process and I said, “This is our book. This is our book.”

So when I got that printed and he read it, he was all excited. And when I was writing, he actually would be like, oh, you know, whenever we were thinking about a second book, he would come and be like,” Mama, can we work on that? Can we do this?”

He would get all excited. So it was, again, I’m not, you know, a pediatrician or I don’t understand child psychology, but even working with him on the book, when he would tell me certain words, for example, that he wouldn’t understand. It would tell me that, oh, I need to probably make this simpler because this child doesn’t understand it.

Dr. Cindy: Oh my goodness. You may be creating a little writer in your house!

And now I wonder too with your second child, who’s only one, but, if he’s going to want to write books too.

Oh, that’s just beautiful. It touches my heart that you wrote it together. You wrote this for your, well, for both of your children really. And you’re writing more and more books.

Is there money in this pursuit of writing, do you think?

Dr. Farah: So, the money piece of it, well I would say from my perspective, not really. Don’t do it for the money, I would say.

And if you are looking to write, say a novel that you wanna sell a hundred bucks, then yes, you can ask, you can adjust your commission or something on Amazon.

And if you want to sell a novel, which is a simple book, there’s no premium colors or bright images or anything in it , then fine, maybe if you sell a couple thousand copies, you’ll make money off it.

But when it comes to the children’s book, I chose the premium quality, which is the most expensive one that they have. And the reason being was that I had the bright colors and everything going in there, and I wanted it specifically of good quality for that purpose.

The big cut goes to Amazon and you might get a little bit. So really it’s not about the money piece of it. Unless of course you are working, like I said, on a big novel, and you wanna price it at a high point and sell it for that and make a good commission.

There are people who do make a livelihood out of this, but in my opinion, when it comes to just the point about creating, you’re getting your creative voice out, writing a children’s book, making it nice and bright, and actually expecting money from, I would say, maybe not.

Why Physician Moms Need a Creative Outlet Beyond Work and Parenting

Dr. Farah: I will tell you from the satisfaction perspective, like I said, I didn’t have a grand business plan or something doing this. I did it more to connect with my son to teach him something.

But then, I was talking with one of my co-fellows during my fellowship and I was telling her like, hey look, I did this. She’s a mom of two, and she got all excited. She’s like, I wanna buy this. She bought a copy and I wasn’t thinking much of it. I said, you know, I just did it for fun and her kids loved it.

Then one of my physician mom colleagues said she bought a copy. Her daughter doesn’t like eating apples. And when she read the book, the first thing she did was grab an apple, and ever since then she has been eating apples.

Dr. Cindy: Oh my gosh.

Dr. Farah: It’s that piece of it that made me realize, wow, I did something.

It’s kind of like in clinical medicine when you have a diagnosis and you feel like, wow, I fixed, I did something, but this, I felt it was even greater than that because I really enjoyed the process, the creative piece, the creative voice. As I was going along the process made me realize that we really need to get our kids learning from a stage where we don’t think much of it, but for them it really does matter.

That piece of it really mattered to me. There was this time my kid was, I believe, two and a half or three, I can’t remember. I went to daycare to pick him up and his teacher came to me and said, “Your son said something very funny.”

And every parent knows when a teacher tells you that, your heart basically just sings like, oh my God. Oh no, what? Oh no, what is it again?

And that was exactly me. I just stood there frozen and. I said, “What did he do?”

She said his friend was sitting with him eating a donut, and my son looked at him and said, “That’s processed.”

And I said, okay. That wasn’t too bad.

Dr. Cindy: That’s not too bad.

Dr. Farah: But it’s so funny that after that the teacher was talking with other teachers and they were like, oh, you wrote something. You know, when you have your kids do daycare, the teachers kind of become your friends. So I actually got them a couple of copies just to keep in their classroom just for fun.

It was just the whole learning curve, but also the piece that I really, really enjoyed the process and which is why I decided to write more. My second book I wrote was called Spike. I call them all Nom Nom because my child used to call food Nom Nom.

Dr. Cindy: Okay.

Dr. Farah: But then I have a subheading.

So the first one was like Nom Nom, the second one. Nom Nom Spike. Uh, what I try to teach him through that, and this is something I teach patients a lot, that if you’re having a cookie, it has no fiber in it, so it’s going to give you a sharp spike in your blood sugar and down.

But let’s say you have salad or an apple. Then you have a steady spike and down. So kind of trying to tell my kid that, look, the brownie is fine, but it’s giving you a big rollercoaster spike as you’re eating it. So I tried to illustrate a rollercoaster, again, kind of the creative piece of it. And then recently, the last one I wrote was actually on mindful eating.

It’s about a turtle who is eating food, but then also looking at the food, smelling the food, looking at the colors of the food. Kind of teaching them, don’t just eat food for the sake of eating food. You actually should enjoy it. You should experience your process of having a meal with your family or just in general.

Dr. Cindy: Oh, I love that it’s a turtle because turtles take things a little bit slower, you need to slow down and appreciate your food. Yeah.

So, you have followed your passion and it turns out it’s having this ripple effect on the teachers and your kids, and now you’re writing more books.

What would you say to the listener today who has these creative ideas like you, but hasn’t quite had the oomph to get started. What would she say to her?

Dr. Farah: I would say that the process is actually very simple. We make it hard for ourselves.

If you think of a project, it’s like, oh my God, there’s so much involved. But really, like I said, as physicians, learning is very innate to us, and if we put our thought into it, it’s kind of, you know, how we studied for all these really difficult board exams.

It’s not as hard at all. We have done really difficult things and there’s so many resources now out there that you have. You just need some time and really you should take some time for yourself. And that’s a critical piece that physicians in general and physician moms in general really miss.

And like I said, when I came out of my training and joined this job. I was burning out and not even really realizing it. And the funny thing is, the people around you notice that something’s wrong with this person, but you internally don’t notice it.

Because you’re so busy thinking, I saw this patient today, they, I ordered that. I don’t know what’s going on with them… I need to order. It’s constantly on your mind. Even at 10:00 PM it’s on your mind.

And after, in my case, after 5:00 PM I’m picking the kids up from daycare as it is for most moms, your shift ends, but then your second shift starts. It’s really important that we take a break from that. We disconnect ourselves briefly despite all the love and care that we have for our kids.

It’s really important that we take those, even if it’s 10 minutes, 15 minutes, we take it just selfishly for yourself because you need it.

Dr. Cindy: Mm-hmm.

Dr. Farah: And it’s that realization that I think I was six months into my job or so that I think I hit my peak of burnout.

It was, it was just too much for me. I started reaching out to people, other female physicians and kind of other physician moms and learning from them, and that’s the point where I realized that I’m not the only one. And it’s often just getting out there and talking to people that I’m having these issues, I’m having this going on. What should I do?

I feel as physicians, as trainees, as residents, as fellows, we don’t learn that piece of saying that, Hey, I’m tired. What should I do? And someone needs to actually knock some sense to us and say that, I think you need to take a break. So for me it was this piece of it. I always enjoyed writing.

In general I enjoyed writing, but I’d never done a children’s book writing per se, and my child pulled me in that direction and I really, really enjoyed it. So I would really urge all physician moms out there to go out there and find your creative voice, whether it’s through children’s books, whether it’s through writing or reading or podcasting, it doesn’t matter. You need that. It is a very important piece for you because it actually plays, you may not think of it, but it plays a huge role in your child’s life, in your family.

Dr. Cindy: That is so beautifully said. I will just leave it right at that — all of your words of wisdom.

Thank you for that. Where can people reach out to you? Where can they find your books?

Where to Find Dr. Farah’s Children’s Books and Nutrition Resources

Dr. Farah: My books are actually all up on Amazon, the three books I’m working on a fourth one as well. But again, it’s more about if I get time every now and then, I go on Canva to play around.

Dr. Cindy: Yeah.

Dr. Farah: They’re all Amazon, but they’re not under my actual name. My actual name is Farah Deshmukh. They’re actually under Farah Merchant, which is my husband’s last name.

I didn’t change my name after I got married. So if you just search Nom Nom Farah Merchant, it actually shows up. So yeah, that’s where you can find it.

And you know, I’m very active on LinkedIn, so you can always reach out to me and message me, if you want to get in the process and you’re having trouble tweaking things and getting denied for dimensions of 0.0005. Very happy to get on and help you.

Dr. Cindy: Oh, that’s wonderful. I’ll put links in the show notes, in the footnotes so that you can just click and go straight to your LinkedIn page, your Amazon links, and I think you mentioned you’re on Instagram also. Is that right?

Dr. Farah: Yeah. So that is actually, I do that more for patient education. It’s called Rethink Health MD on Instagram. And I do that for my patients because I do obesity, medicine, nutrition, teaching them just basic things about nutrition, labor, reading and things like that. Nutrition is kind of the big core of what I do along with internal medicine, in inpatient, in outpatient. It’s always been something I really enjoy.

Dr. Cindy: Okay. Thank you so much for being my guest today. I love it.

Dr. Farah: Thank you for having me. It was so nice talking with you.

Links:

• Amazon books: Nom Nom Farah Merchant
• Instagram: @RethinkHealthMD
• LinkedIn: Farah Deshmukh MD

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