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This Physician Left Her Job to Teach Life Skills for Those in Need

Kathryn Miner worked as an emergency medicine physician for more than a decade before discovering culinary medicine. “Culinary medicine is centered on nutrition, food safety aspects, teaching kitchens, being a physician and kind of slash pseudo chef.” Miner left emergency medicine and began practicing culinary medicine at a health care company, but was soon laid off. That didn’t stop her. She started volunteering at several places including the public library running teaching kitchens, local churches serving women and children experiencing homelessness, and at a transitional housing complex. “Miner estimates she’s led between 30 to 40 classes from various groups and says the fulfillment it brings her is unmatched.” “And it’s just left me feeling a lot more satisfied, to be quite honest, than really anything that I’ve done professionally, even in the emergency department.”

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