My guests Dr. Meera Kirpekar and Dr. Alopi Patel are two young anesthesiologists and fellowship trained Pain Medicine physicians who created a podcast and social media platform, The Female Pain Docs, to educate and empower patients as well to promote the use of social media for effective branding, networking and advocacy in the field of anesthesiology and pain medicine. They use social media to educate patients about our profession and allay any hesitations they may have from medical misinformation they may have seen online. 

As women physicians, both Dr. Kirpekar and Dr. Patel find themselves “a minority in the field of pain medicine, and their experiences have led them to believe that the female population is underserved in the global understanding of female-based pain syndromes. They are passionate in advocating for women’s health, and as a result, their practice focuses on female patients.”

Follow Dr. K and Dr. P online @thefemalepaindocs
Listen to their podcast, The Hurt by the Female Pain Docs