A Career Transforming Women's Health Care w/ Dr. Mitch Levine
About this episode
Dr. Mitch Levine discusses his transformative work in women's health care and his personal journey facing terminal cancer.
Most of the stories on this show are connected to food in some way - but as our byline says we also talk about radical love and creative social justice, and today’s show uplifts a beautiful example of both of these principles. Mitch Levine is an OBGYN doctor based in the Boston area who has been helping to transform his profession towards women-centered holistic care for over 40 years. Starting from a place of respecting women’s bodies and wishes, he demonstrated that it was possible to support births and surgeries in ways that were previously unheard of in 1980’s western medical practices. He learned from and partnered with midwives and spread new techniques to residents and other doctors inside hospitals one birth or surgery at a time. This approach has contributed to changing what is considered standard practice for procedures such as births after c-section and removing fibroids - a major win for women’s health. Our host Tagan Engel has known Mitch for nearly 45 years, since she was a little kid, through a cooperative summer dance community they were both part of. She always knew he was a well respected women’s health doctor, but hadn’t talked with him about it… this summer…
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