Aditi Nerurkar

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631 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard Apr 2025

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It's such a pleasure to join you, Whitney, and the entire TED community.

So that's like the million dollar question.

Before I became a doctor with an expertise on stress, I was a stress patient looking for answers.

I was a medical resident working 80 hours a week in the hospital, seeing death and dying on a daily basis.

As part of my training, it was a really rigorous and robust program.

And one particular month, I was in the cardiac ICU, taking care of all of my patients' hearts, not really thinking about my own health.

And after a particularly brutal call, I did 30 hours in the hospital, as is typically done when you are a medical resident.

And I developed a stampede of wild horses across my chest.

That's how it felt.

Knocked the wind out of me.

Immediately, I sat down.

The nurse I was working with gave me some orange juice and it went away.

The sensation evaporated within seconds and we both laughed it off.

And then I kept working.

That sensation never again happened in the hospital.

But night after night for weeks, Whitney, I experienced that stampede of wild horses.

And then I was very nervous.

And so I went to go see my doctor like a good patient should.

And my doctor did the million dollar workup, tested my blood, heart, doing an EKG, a heart ultrasound, echocardiogram.

Everything checked out fine.

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