Speaker 1: Welcome to Checking In with Michelle Williams, a production of
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and The Black Effect. Hey, y'all, what's going on?
Speaker 1: You know, there are just some people that you see
Speaker 1: on social media and they just have an amazing bright
Speaker 1: light about them. And sometimes they go unknown to people
Speaker 1: because maybe they they're not the singer that's got the
Speaker 1: you know, the top five charting hit, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Or maybe they don't have a new movie
Speaker 1: coming out in theaters that's this blockbuster special. But they
Speaker 1: are making impact in their own communities or in their
Speaker 1: industry that they work in. And so we found someone
Speaker 1: by the name of doctor Rob Singleton, and I just
Speaker 1: became just so inspired by the things that he was posting.
Speaker 1: And one day he posted about how you know, children
Speaker 1: need eight hugs a day, and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh to hear him talk about that. Normally you
Speaker 1: only hear that in the space of like mental health,
Speaker 1: but for someone you know like him, I was like, Okay.
Speaker 1: So I became more and more interested about him and
Speaker 1: just about his life, his wife's life, whom I'm excited
Speaker 1: about having come on the show, and you know, listen,
Speaker 1: I just I just really love when people are doing
Speaker 1: their thing in their industry. So I'm excited to welcome
Speaker 1: doctor Rob Singleton. He is an anesthesiologist and advocate for
Speaker 1: evidence based health information, a father and a husband, and
Speaker 1: so you know we're gonna be talking about so much.
Speaker 1: We even talk about the controversy a little bit about
Speaker 1: ozembic and how does a busy person make sure that
Speaker 1: they just keep God first and in the center of
Speaker 1: every thing that they're doing, or just just your life.
Speaker 1: How do you find time to meditate? How do you
Speaker 1: find time to read your Bible? How do you find
Speaker 1: time to work out? How do you find time? Just
Speaker 1: everybody is so busy. So I'm excited to welcome doctor
Speaker 1: Rob Singleton. Everybody, y'all know how excited I get when
Speaker 1: I talk to two smart people, thriving people, people that
Speaker 1: are making impact and making such a difference in this world.
Speaker 1: I saw a video on Instagram from a doctor not
Speaker 1: like he was a psychologist, a psychiatrist, or a therapist,
Speaker 1: licensed clinical social worker, a doctor in different practices. Just
Speaker 1: stay with me, I'm gonna get there. An anesthesiologist, uh,
Speaker 1: anesthesiology physician, but anestesiologist to make it right, am I
Speaker 1: am I am, I so board certified anestesiologist, and he's
Speaker 1: had folks need eight hugs a day or children need
Speaker 1: eight hugs a day, and I thought it so profound
Speaker 1: to hear that coming from him, an anesthesiologist, and I
Speaker 1: could not wait to talk to him because that is
Speaker 1: my field as far as the field of mental health
Speaker 1: and people feeling great, and I could not wait to
Speaker 1: have him on here, y'all. He is Illinois based, Board
Speaker 1: certified physician. Specialty is anesthesiology, which I've had before, and
Speaker 1: I don't remember my life prior to or after I
Speaker 1: was told, y'all, doctor Robert Single to the second is
Speaker 1: checking in with us today.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for that introduction. Thank you for
Speaker 2: having me.
Speaker 3: I'm a huge fan of yours, and I thank you
Speaker 3: for the opportunity just to talk about, you know, some
Speaker 3: of the things that God has on my heart and
Speaker 3: to have this conversation with you. Wow.
Speaker 1: So listen, y'all. His background. I saw Peoria, Illinois. I
Speaker 1: saw where you graduated college from, and I was like, so,
Speaker 1: my memories of Peoria is partying.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I finished on my training, I went to Well first,
Speaker 3: I'm from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and so I went to
Speaker 3: Louisiana State University for college. Then I went to Howard
Speaker 3: University in Washington, d C. For medical school Howard University,
Speaker 3: and then I did my anesthesia training at the University
Speaker 3: of Arkansas. We wanted to get back closer to Chicago
Speaker 3: because my wife is from Chicago. So we got close
Speaker 3: to Chicago in Peoria, Illinois, which is about two and
Speaker 3: a half hours away. We were there for five years
Speaker 3: or so, but we wanted to get back, you know,
Speaker 3: even closer because her parents are here in Chicago. We
Speaker 3: have a lot of family here. But Peoria, you know,
Speaker 3: it was a very small city. We were able to
Speaker 3: grow prof acson. Only my wife advanced career wise there
Speaker 3: and so.
Speaker 1: I'm a schedule her.
Speaker 2: If you listening.
Speaker 1: To Amazing Power Couple.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Thank you so much. She is
Speaker 3: She's ten times smarter than I am. I'm so proud
Speaker 3: of her. She is the chief compliance officer at the
Speaker 3: University of Illinois and just so intelligent.
Speaker 2: I'm so proud of her.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, we moved to the We're not in downtown,
Speaker 3: We're not in the city of Chicago.
Speaker 2: We are in the south suburbs. But you know, I
Speaker 2: love my job safety reasons.
Speaker 3: But you know, we have our kids, love their schools,
Speaker 3: we love our neighborhood, we love our jobs, and so
Speaker 3: we are so happy to be in the Chicago Land area.
Speaker 1: I am so excited to hear that the very very
Speaker 1: first house I ever bought was in the South suburb
Speaker 1: of Chicago. I'm from Rockford, Illinois originally.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, my brother still.
Speaker 1: He lives downtown Chicago and family is still in that
Speaker 1: rock For area. I went to school at Illinois State
Speaker 1: and some of the parties kind of took us down
Speaker 1: the highway to Peoria. Every now there was a nice
Speaker 1: church that we shipped with from time to time. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was City of Hope. Hope was
Speaker 1: in the name. Bishop Haral Dawson was the pastor. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to I'm not gonna bring y'all any
Speaker 1: shame because I was. I was a good girl. But
Speaker 1: I did go to some of the parties. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: and look what God has done. He has a seated in.
Speaker 2: Heavenly God, Praise God.
Speaker 1: Everybody has a story. Everybody has a story. So this
Speaker 1: interview can go so many ways. You are a literal
Speaker 1: practicing physician, yes, but we I think what I like
Speaker 1: is we get to see you as a father, someone's husband,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, a son. Do you have any siblings?
Speaker 2: I have a younger brother.
Speaker 1: Okay, so as a brother and being so we think
Speaker 1: that you're just a doctor, but you're human too, who
Speaker 1: is also like killing it as a content creator?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Okay, tell us about that journey.
Speaker 3: You know, when I first I started on Instagram shortly
Speaker 3: after the pandemic, and I at first just kind of
Speaker 3: posted about my family, birthday parties, we love to travel.
Speaker 3: I kind of just posted personal things. But as you recalled,
Speaker 3: during the pandemic, there were so many conspiracy theories about
Speaker 3: the virus and the vaccine, and it was so crazy,
Speaker 3: and I felt like it was my responsibility because so.
Speaker 2: Many people trusted me.
Speaker 3: I felt like it was my responsibility to spread reliable
Speaker 3: health information. You know, many times people they don't know
Speaker 3: what sources to trust, and so if they can, you know,
Speaker 3: find me a black physician. You know, cultural competency, it,
Speaker 3: I think can make an impact on their health decisions
Speaker 3: in which what type of medical information they choose. So
Speaker 3: I started posting more. Thank you I posted more more
Speaker 3: health information, more about me as a physician, and people
Speaker 3: became more interested in my journey, and so I went
Speaker 3: in that direction. And then about a year ago, my
Speaker 3: wife and I started back going to church. We had
Speaker 3: not gone for two years during the pandemic, but that
Speaker 3: was an experience or both of us started to become
Speaker 3: closer to God through we joined a new church, so
Speaker 3: we went to the new members classes and then from there,
Speaker 3: the transformation I was experiencing spiritually crossed over into my
Speaker 3: social media and so I started to post things that
Speaker 3: were inspiring to me, things that I thought would help
Speaker 3: other people, that you know, would resonate with people, because
Speaker 3: and what I post, I don't get too too deep.
Speaker 3: I share scriptures, but I don't I don't get very deep.
Speaker 3: I feel like many times people just need a little
Speaker 3: bit of encouragement just to make it through the day,
Speaker 3: make it through the week, you know. And so what
Speaker 3: I share, it's it's very simple, but it's things that
Speaker 3: I think that you know, can can help people, just
Speaker 3: to just a little bit of encouragement and in the process,
Speaker 3: you know, share the gospel.
Speaker 1: I was about to ask you, how do you share?
Speaker 1: But I think I just heard a voice say he's
Speaker 1: graced to share. The reason why I say that, I well,
Speaker 1: the reason why I believe that just got the revelation
Speaker 1: is because your job is a heavy job. You probably
Speaker 1: need the encouragement the strength because what you do, like
Speaker 1: you got to like know, like the person's wait, every
Speaker 1: single medical condition, if they've had surgery in the past, y'all,
Speaker 1: let me tell you if you've never if you've had
Speaker 1: anesthesiology before, whether it was a major procedure or within
Speaker 1: patient or outpatient. You know, I know these questions that
Speaker 1: they ask and it during near scares me, like I'll
Speaker 1: just live with my condition because this is just true.
Speaker 1: So imagine if the patient is feeling that way. You've
Speaker 1: gone to school for this, but you have to know
Speaker 1: every single thing about this person that you are about
Speaker 1: to prepare for some time medical procedure that is going
Speaker 1: to be life changing for them.
Speaker 2: And thank you for that.
Speaker 3: Many people don't realize how important our role is as
Speaker 3: anesthesia physicians. And in a typical day, most days everything
Speaker 3: goes smoothly. You know, we see our patients, we do
Speaker 3: our cases, we go home, but every once in a while,
Speaker 3: there are emergencies. We have massive hemorrhage, you know, bleeding
Speaker 3: where we have to administer blood products and platelets and
Speaker 3: frozen plasma.
Speaker 2: We have had.
Speaker 1: So it's more than just administering the good good that
Speaker 1: puts us to sleep.
Speaker 3: It's more than that. It's more than that. We have
Speaker 3: emergency sees. We have that see sections, we have trauma,
Speaker 3: we have cold blue cardiac arrest. There's emergencies that happen
Speaker 3: even in the outpatient procedures, and so it's important that
Speaker 3: we've remain that we are vigilant, that we remain up
Speaker 3: to date on the latest health information guidelines. I just
Speaker 3: came from an anesthesia conference in San Francisco. Every year,
Speaker 3: the American Society of Anaesthesiologists holds a conference and we're
Speaker 3: able to not only network, but learn about the newest
Speaker 3: trends and anesthesia and patient care. And so it's important
Speaker 3: for us to remain up to date on what's going
Speaker 3: on because it can save someone's life.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited, y'all. I'm talking to Rob's second fifty three.
Speaker 1: That is his Instagram profile. So if you're like me,
Speaker 1: sometimes when a movie is going on, I'm nosy, I'll
Speaker 1: go and research the author or more of the synopsis
Speaker 1: of the movie or something that I'm watching. So in
Speaker 1: case you're kind of curious about who we're talking to
Speaker 1: right now, you can go to his Instagram at Robert
Speaker 1: second fifty three. He does have a TikTok which is.
Speaker 3: The same Yeah, so I post the same thing on
Speaker 3: most of the same videos on YouTube and Instagram, same name,
Speaker 3: But I primarily I focused on Instagram. It's just I've
Speaker 3: built community there and so every day I post something
Speaker 3: new that's on my heart. That was kind of a
Speaker 3: challenge that I gave myself just to every day post something.
Speaker 1: And so, okay, well I've got to ask this question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got to ask this question. Do you get flack
Speaker 1: from fellow colleagues or just people who probably like, you're
Speaker 1: a doctor, you shouldn't be on here.
Speaker 2: This is for kids, you know what I do not.
Speaker 2: It's so funny.
Speaker 3: My my coworkers and hospital administrators are so supportive. It's
Speaker 3: funny because you know, I'll get my the different administrators
Speaker 3: will come up and say, oh, how is your vacation,
Speaker 3: or we saw this real we saw this video. They're
Speaker 3: very supportive of And whenever I went to the our
Speaker 3: Anesthesia conference in San Francisco. You know, I talked about
Speaker 3: it with some of my colleagues there, and you know,
Speaker 3: they very happy that I was able to share about
Speaker 3: my profession. Because anesthesia, I know you're familiar with it,
Speaker 3: but many people don't realize, you know, what we do
Speaker 3: and how important our job is. And so it's kind
Speaker 3: of a form of advocacy, uh for for safe anesthesia care.
Speaker 3: And so people kind of can see me and know
Speaker 3: what an anesthesiologist does, and you know, so I get
Speaker 3: lots of support for my social media presence. I do
Speaker 3: have two rules that I have though. I don't sing
Speaker 3: and I don't dance, so I don't do those things.
Speaker 3: I feel like if I do and I sing, I
Speaker 3: sung in the choir before, but I can't. I can't
Speaker 3: sing solo. I can sing an a choir.
Speaker 1: And you're not tempted to do like the latest dance trends.
Speaker 2: On they're cool, they're cool. I do them.
Speaker 3: I do them with my kids whenever there's no cameras,
Speaker 3: but that not on camera, no one.
Speaker 1: And stay and you know what works for you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know exactly what works for you, y'all. Y'all got
Speaker 1: to see this microphone he has. Do you have a podcast?
Speaker 3: You know what I just I just started a quote
Speaker 3: unquote podcast for the month of or for the new year.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to read one chapter a day of the Bible,
Speaker 3: and so I started in the Book of Matthew. So
Speaker 3: I record a chapter and I have it recorded in
Speaker 3: podcasts format. So it's just me reading the Bible. It's
Speaker 3: not any commentary or any other content yet, but I'm
Speaker 3: thinking about it.
Speaker 1: Y'all listen, Okay. So some people might think when you're
Speaker 1: a doctor, you must stay just a doctor. So my uncle,
Speaker 1: who is a family practice physician in Rockford, Illinois, also
Speaker 1: became a pastor.
Speaker 2: Wow, and he loves to teach.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're like him or not, But
Speaker 1: now that I look back and like, I asked him
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about medicine, and I never knew
Speaker 1: if he likes to talk about medicine. But because not
Speaker 1: only he's a teacher, I think he enjoyed sharing the information.
Speaker 1: Now when I go home, I don't ask me about Beyonce,
Speaker 1: don't I don't ask me where he is, don't ask
Speaker 1: me about Jay Kelly. I where are the greens and
Speaker 1: the Yeah? Yeah, just that right for you. I am
Speaker 1: just wondering you're outside of medicine, and do you think
Speaker 1: you have to choose?
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm all about balance. Like whenever I'm at work, I'm professional.
Speaker 3: I work, but whenever I as soon as my scrubs
Speaker 3: come off and I get in my car and I
Speaker 3: go home like I'm I am Robert second five three,
Speaker 3: like I'm about my kids, you know. I you know,
Speaker 3: like I mentioned, it's it's it can be stressful at work,
Speaker 3: and so I try to compartmentalize it, you know, whenever
Speaker 3: I come home, I'm not. My wife likes to watch
Speaker 3: you know, Gray's Anatomy and you know these medical shows.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see that.
Speaker 1: Now, do you then? Do you torture her by watching
Speaker 1: all the law shows?
Speaker 2: You know what? That's so funny. She does.
Speaker 3: She does not watch the law show. She doesn't watch
Speaker 3: all Rise or any of that.
Speaker 1: So, you know, I don't know, but the medical especially
Speaker 1: the medical shows, I'm not sure about the law shows. Laurie's.
Speaker 1: I don't know about the medicals because family members and
Speaker 1: they be like they'll watch the shows and be like,
Speaker 1: why is this electro Like placed in their bear load
Speaker 1: does not go Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where are the consultants to tell them, you know,
Speaker 3: how to how to do things?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right, right, right right, Okay, So the reason why I
Speaker 1: asked you all of that is because what you're saying
Speaker 1: you're doing with you know, reading the Bible and all
Speaker 1: these kinds of things. So I'm just here to encourage
Speaker 1: you to go for whatever. Uh it seems like God
Speaker 1: is leading you to do, you know, and this journey
Speaker 1: that you're on, the fact that you're sharing it unashamedly, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean some people find God and they get ashamed.
Speaker 1: I mean you're quoting scripture, you're low key reading people sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know. It's so it's absolutely amazing. But I want
Speaker 1: to go back to the video that you made about
Speaker 1: eight hugs a day. Again, that's how I found you
Speaker 1: and what I like. You are an advocate for evidence
Speaker 1: based health information. Yes, I heard it was ten hugs
Speaker 1: a day, eight hugs a days the same, but because
Speaker 1: some people don't get any hugs a day.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, you know it's so funny. That post has
Speaker 3: like thousands of comments. I haven't read them all, but
Speaker 3: every once in a while I'll see a comment and somebody, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right, you're right. But every once in a while
Speaker 3: I'll see a comment and somebody will say, you know,
Speaker 3: I should be dead right now, Like I haven't gotten
Speaker 3: a hug all year, and it's like, wow, A lot
Speaker 3: of times I take for granted all the hugs that
Speaker 3: I get from my kids and you know, my wife,
Speaker 3: and there are people out there, you know, even though
Speaker 3: we are so connected through social media. You can see
Speaker 3: your old classmates and your neighbors. We're so connected, but
Speaker 3: how much of the time do we actually get to
Speaker 3: see people, to enter to interface with people, you know,
Speaker 3: And so we have to not forget that we really
Speaker 3: we as humans need and.
Speaker 2: We're wired for social interaction.
Speaker 3: And so that kind of was the point of that
Speaker 3: of that video, that you know, we have to make
Speaker 3: sure that we are still socializing, that we're still you know,
Speaker 3: being kind to each other, that we are you know,
Speaker 3: not taking out our physical needs for being around other
Speaker 3: people for granted.
Speaker 1: Mmm, that's so good, that's so good. People are Well,
Speaker 1: how do I how can I hug my children that
Speaker 1: many times a day? I just be trying to get
Speaker 1: them out the door and go to school. But I
Speaker 1: thought I'd figure it out.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Hug them when you wake them up in the morning. Okay,
Speaker 1: hug them when they've gotten dressed, or after they've bathed
Speaker 1: and all this. They burst their tea, you know, hug
Speaker 1: them maybe you know, when they're eating their food. You
Speaker 1: might just walk by and just give them a little
Speaker 1: nudge or something. That's three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, get them out.
Speaker 1: The door to school. You're driving to school. You hug
Speaker 1: them or tap something when they get up. That'st for.
Speaker 1: It ain't even nine.
Speaker 2: Am yet, there you go.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so you got them off to school. Y'all
Speaker 1: get home from work. He's come home.
Speaker 2: Five.
Speaker 1: You done. Hug them? Hey, we at five? They told
Speaker 1: you about their day, Dad, I didn't have a good
Speaker 1: day at school today. That's the time grab them. You
Speaker 1: hug them, man, I'm so sorry you didn't have a
Speaker 1: good day. Six okay, okay, okay, Lucy, how can how
Speaker 1: can they? So they tell you about their day? Then
Speaker 1: y'all are y'all are eating dinner? Dad, I hate Brussels sprouts,
Speaker 1: little girl, you're gonna eat them Brussels sprouts. Okay, eat
Speaker 1: the Brussels sprouts. She ate the Brussels sprouts. You hunt her.
Speaker 1: That's so good, baby girl. At hugs. That's about seven
Speaker 1: o'clock at night. Yeah, I don't hugged. That's that's seven fingers,
Speaker 1: eight hugs. So at seven o'clock at night, then you're
Speaker 1: telling them it's time to go to bed. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go to bed. Man you and come here
Speaker 1: and get in that bed. You drop them up a
Speaker 1: little bit, do the little hugs. That's bad hugs. Then
Speaker 1: you'd be like, you know, before you go to bed,
Speaker 1: let's say our little prayers or something, or do you
Speaker 1: a little bathing or whatever you're gonna y'all, y'all, And
Speaker 1: that's ten hugs.
Speaker 2: That's ten hugs. There you go. And it's so funny.
Speaker 1: My daughter, Hey, I could have stopped that eight you could.
Speaker 2: Have stopped that date.
Speaker 3: My daughter actually tells me at the end of the
Speaker 3: day how many hugs she's gotten, and so I try
Speaker 3: to make up for it. Yeah, it's it's so cute.
Speaker 3: It's the cutest thing ever. She'll say, I got six
Speaker 3: hugs today. So when I get home from work, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: we're gonna get you those your other two hugs to
Speaker 3: get you eight hugs.
Speaker 2: And you know, I hugged my daughter. I hugged my
Speaker 2: son too.
Speaker 3: We're very affectionate in our house, and so I try
Speaker 3: to make sure that you know they know that I
Speaker 3: love them. You know, we say I love you. You know,
Speaker 3: kids need that and everybody needs that, even we as adults,
Speaker 3: you know, need to know that we're love and to
Speaker 3: fill that warmth.
Speaker 1: That's so good because I'm told or or through therapists
Speaker 1: and just looking at things like people that work in
Speaker 1: the medical book, doctors, attorneys and police officers can are
Speaker 1: not affectionate. They can't be affectionate because lots of times
Speaker 1: you're delivering bad news.
Speaker 3: That's true, Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And so for you to still be like, I gotta
Speaker 1: go home, I gotta huggies kids, I gotta my wife,
Speaker 1: I gotta rub her feet. I don't even like fee
Speaker 1: trying to be all in your head. I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but but but thank you for stating that. And it's real. Mean,
Speaker 1: I grew up my mother didn't like we would try
Speaker 1: to bummerish her with hugs, and she just did not
Speaker 1: like hugs. You know what I mean. I can give hugs,
Speaker 1: but sometimes receiver hugs. I'd be like I'll do a
Speaker 1: little church things where you yeah, or if you're in
Speaker 1: my real, real core, but you just never know what
Speaker 1: physical touch can do to someone. How do you feel
Speaker 1: that a busy person can incorporate the habit of incorporating
Speaker 1: God into their daily life.
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 3: So part of my focus, you know, this month, no
Speaker 3: matter how busy you are, you know, even if you
Speaker 3: only have a few minutes to day, I think it's
Speaker 3: important to read God's word. And so I've been reading,
Speaker 3: like I said, the Book of Matthew. And you know,
Speaker 3: each chapter it takes between you know, at some chapters
Speaker 3: two minutes to read, three minutes to read. And I
Speaker 3: believe that if you honor God with just that little
Speaker 3: bit of time, you know, even if it's only one
Speaker 3: Bible verse, even that one verse that you meditate on
Speaker 3: throughout the day, can get into your spirit, transform your heart,
Speaker 3: transform your mind, get your perspective right for the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the day.
Speaker 3: It doesn't take you know, reading for hours and hours
Speaker 3: and hours, because one Bible verse can make a difference.
Speaker 1: That's so good. One Bible verse. And it's so funny
Speaker 1: because I find in my you know, reading you get
Speaker 1: exciting Okay, Oh, this chapter is twenty verses. That's good,
Speaker 1: and you get some of them chapters be one hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve verses.
Speaker 3: I'd be like, now, wait man, yeah, and then we
Speaker 3: get discouraged.
Speaker 2: We get discouraged by that.
Speaker 3: And you know, my thing is sometimes also whenever you
Speaker 3: have Bible reading plans, which are good, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 3: but you can be so focused on meeting your quota
Speaker 3: for that day, like I have to get this many
Speaker 3: chapters where you to where you don't even you aren't
Speaker 3: able to really focus on what you're reading or meditate
Speaker 3: on what you're reading. So that's more important to have
Speaker 3: the word inside of you transforming you than how much
Speaker 3: the volume of what you're reading.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm so excited, thank you for being here. I've
Speaker 1: just got some more questions. I just want to get through, okay,
Speaker 1: because this is so good. This is so good, some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that I actually was not on our
Speaker 1: run down for today. But sometimes the conversation just becomes
Speaker 1: so organic that I just can't help while I have
Speaker 1: the person here like to take advantage of some of
Speaker 1: those moments. How do you take care of yourself because
Speaker 1: your job is so stressful any techniques for any healthcare workers.
Speaker 1: You know, you probably like, man, I'm not perfect. I
Speaker 1: get stressed like everybody too, So you.
Speaker 2: Know, what do you do?
Speaker 3: So I start my day with weightlifting. I weightlift about
Speaker 3: five days a week with my trainer.
Speaker 1: I'm actually three right three am.
Speaker 3: Early early in the morning, which surprisingly there are there
Speaker 3: are lots of people in the gym that early, and
Speaker 3: I'm actually preparing. I'm doing a phaz show like a
Speaker 3: bodybuilding show in May, and so I'm doing all the
Speaker 3: diet and all that for that. But I find that,
Speaker 3: you know, if you're able to start off your day
Speaker 3: with that boost of endorphins, that sets the tone for
Speaker 3: the day. And so that's that's how I, you know,
Speaker 3: balance myself by prioritizing my fitness.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so prioritizing your fitness, y'all, and of course
Speaker 1: reading reading your word. I mean, come on, uh, I'm
Speaker 1: sure on some great music and you know, a great
Speaker 1: life giving a farming music. How do you, as a
Speaker 1: doctor cope with loss and handle grief? Because many miracles happen,
Speaker 1: the miracle might happen on the other side of eternity
Speaker 1: for those who are left behind to deal with Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know what's crazy. I have never suffered major loss
Speaker 3: or grief. Uh, you know, I I haven't lost anybody
Speaker 3: close to me. And sometimes I think about that often,
Speaker 3: like how would I how would I respond? How would
Speaker 3: I react? I don't know, because I've never lost anybody
Speaker 3: close to me. Knock on wood?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you do when the patient didn't make it?
Speaker 3: You know, it's actually exceedingly rare. So I've been practicing.
Speaker 3: You know, I finished school in twenty sixteen. Knock on
Speaker 3: wood again, I haven't lost any patients in the operating room.
Speaker 3: Whenever I work in the intensive care unit. You see
Speaker 3: a lot of deaths in the intensive care unit, Yes,
Speaker 3: And a lot of times I will perform an anesthesia
Speaker 3: case for a very sick patient and I have to
Speaker 3: go back like the next week or next two weeks,
Speaker 3: and I find out that they.
Speaker 2: Have passed transition.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, but actually to lose somebody in the operating room,
Speaker 3: it's pretty rare.
Speaker 2: So I don't see that very frequently, thank goodness.
Speaker 1: So basically, folks, don't be afraid to go to the doctor,
Speaker 1: get your checkups, and get your care. Aren't we happy
Speaker 1: to hear that? He's saying it's for him, it's can
Speaker 1: he also be my primary care? No? No, he no,
Speaker 1: he cannot. On one of your posts, you mentioned the
Speaker 1: five types of people you need in your life. M
Speaker 1: hmm yeah, okay, so that goes beyond if you're if
Speaker 1: you're in medicine or not. Give us one or two
Speaker 1: what you're thinking or share the most important type of
Speaker 1: person you need in your life.
Speaker 2: I'll say this a lot of us.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's we surround ourselves with people who are just
Speaker 3: gonna tell us what we want to hear. But it's
Speaker 3: so important that we have people in our lives who
Speaker 3: are going to tell us the truth, who are gonna
Speaker 3: motivate us to be better, people who are going to
Speaker 3: help propel us forward. And so it's it's so important
Speaker 3: that we have those kind of people in our lives.
Speaker 2: I forgot five types of people.
Speaker 1: Worry no, no, no, no, worry is to me. It's just
Speaker 1: what do you think the most important type of thing?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody who can who's gonna push you forward, who's
Speaker 3: gonna encourage you towards your goals, tell you the truth
Speaker 3: about yourself. You know that that is very valuable. Not
Speaker 3: all of us have that. But whenever you come across
Speaker 3: that kind of person, and whenever you do find people
Speaker 3: like that, you really have to not take them for
Speaker 3: granted because you might not.
Speaker 2: You know, that's so good, might not have them always.
Speaker 1: Not only do not take them for granted, but don't
Speaker 1: take what they might share with you personally, because I'm
Speaker 1: guilty of saying on honey, please tell me about me,
Speaker 1: tell me about myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. My best friend told.
Speaker 1: Me something I said I wanted to she I was
Speaker 1: gonna come. You have to come see you the way
Speaker 1: I wanted to let her. But it's truth and not
Speaker 1: that it hurts. But but the truth can hurt, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it can it fortify and just can be used
Speaker 1: as a tool of correction.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about ozimpic. What do you think about
Speaker 1: the explosion of interest and use of it and do
Speaker 1: you think it's mostly safe to use considering some of
Speaker 1: the side effects like stomach paralysis.
Speaker 3: I'll say this, You know there are people who need it,
Speaker 3: and that's why it's it should be and it is
Speaker 3: prescribed by physicians. People don't realize that with obesity comes
Speaker 3: comorbid conditions, so a lot of times, obesity is tied
Speaker 3: to diabetes, it's tied to sleep apnea, it's tied to.
Speaker 2: A lot of different other.
Speaker 3: Conditions, and so people a lot of times need to
Speaker 3: lose weight for their health, and so I think that
Speaker 3: ozimpic used correctly, can help make us healthier. However, there
Speaker 3: are people who abuse it, who don't use it correctly,
Speaker 3: and they are not good candidates for Ozmpics. So you know,
Speaker 3: I think that it's a great drug when you use correctly.
Speaker 2: He said, how do.
Speaker 1: We go from talking about eight hugs to Olympics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody's talking about it. Everybody's talking about when I.
Speaker 1: Tell you, everybody is talking about it. And then I'm
Speaker 1: just even careful. Just because everybody's talking about it, don't
Speaker 1: mean I got to talk about it. But I'm excited
Speaker 1: because somebody here is going to want to know or hear,
Speaker 1: like you said, especially when you have some pre existing
Speaker 1: conditions in which this drug could really be you. So listen,
Speaker 1: I am so thankful for your time today. Keep doing it,
Speaker 1: do the books, the podcast, the appearances, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Just keep going on. And I'm sure that this can
Speaker 1: also probably be a great escape from a job that's fulfilling,
Speaker 1: but can be quite stressful to you. So thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm enjoying my vacation. You have made my year with
Speaker 3: this interview. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. It is a new year. It is
Speaker 1: a new year, and you so much.
Speaker 2: Joy.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited. I mean that miss Singleton, we got
Speaker 1: to have you on here on my podcast. We talk
Speaker 1: to everybody, so I'm excited to get to know to
Speaker 1: get to know her, and to get to know because
Speaker 1: I want to know too. When people say how do
Speaker 1: you make it work? It's not because we are anticipating
Speaker 1: or want anything happen, but it's like attorneys and physicians,
Speaker 1: that's those are really demanding jobs. And I love it together.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, she's busier than I am.
Speaker 1: So wow, Okay, Okay, He's like, I'm just I got
Speaker 1: my little schedule at two pm. We got to do this,
Speaker 1: you know, Okay and me, and then you might have
Speaker 1: to get some cancel because somebody probably ate you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to eat the twelve to twenty four exactly.
Speaker 2: You know it?
Speaker 1: You know it?
Speaker 2: Did you know it?
Speaker 1: Pro seizure in the fall of twenty twenty two. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I just remember the doctor was so sweet. Not
Speaker 1: the anthes allergies was very kind, but the doctor was rare.
Speaker 1: She held my hand, okay, and I just remember her
Speaker 1: grabbing my hand. And then I woke up in recovery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, the best sleep ever.
Speaker 1: But they said what I was coming out of the anesthesia.
Speaker 1: I have pictures. I looked cool. I they said I
Speaker 1: was just but while I woke up and I was
Speaker 1: in a little bit of pain in my aftermen, and
Speaker 1: I was I'm in so much and I think that
Speaker 1: I need drugs or blah blah blah. And then my
Speaker 1: girl Samantha on here she said she even woke up
Speaker 1: during surgery.
Speaker 2: It happened.
Speaker 1: It Yeah, Everybody's like, oh no, oh no, So I
Speaker 1: know that I was like advill knocks me out. My
Speaker 1: mom is like like a sleeping agent in it. So
Speaker 1: we don't understand why if I take to atvil, it's
Speaker 1: night night. Wow, it is night night for me. So
Speaker 1: anesthesia you're light waight Yeah, I'm a cheat d too.
Speaker 1: I'm a cheat day. I'm a cheat date. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: all right. When we love you, you are welcome anytime
Speaker 1: we will be following you to keep track of everything
Speaker 1: that you got going. You are welcome to be in
Speaker 1: touch with us to to say hey, I'm doing this
Speaker 1: or whatever, let's talk about it. Just know that you're
Speaker 1: always welcome.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, doctor Singleton, God bless you.
Speaker 2: Have a good day.
Speaker 1: Oh MG, that was such an amazing interview. He's so
Speaker 1: laid back and so chill, but I guess you have
Speaker 1: to be that, y'all. He's an anesthesiologist, meaning he got
Speaker 1: to put people to sleep for procedures. So I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know. He maybe he can't be too jittery
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah blah blah. He can't be like
Speaker 1: me because sometimes I be turned up. I don't know
Speaker 1: if there are personality tests or personalities that are best
Speaker 1: suited for certain jobs. Find it. I'm gonna find the
Speaker 1: personality tests that are best suited because when I have
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, man, I go bonkers. AnyWho, I'm
Speaker 1: just so excited to give y'all this episode of checking in.
Speaker 1: I really really hope that you find a nugget or
Speaker 1: too that inspires you and just helps you keep going
Speaker 1: during this time. I think the last word I want
Speaker 1: to share for this episode is shine your light wherever
Speaker 1: you are, Shine your light wherever you work, Shine your light,
Speaker 1: and whatever doors you walk through, just be a light.
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