Too Curious MDs
Rewriting the Story: Migration, Medicine, Motherhood, and Slow Healing with Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman
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Welcome to Too Curious MDs — where medicine is more than science — it’s story, art, connection, and integration. In this episode, Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman steps into the chair as both interviewer and interviewee. She traces the chapters that shaped her life and work, from moving to the United Arab Emirates as a child, to attending medical school in Pakistan, to training in New York City, raising children in Kansas City, and eventually building a new chapter in Los Angeles. Through each chapter, she explores how identity, culture, family, medicine, and story shaped the way she sees patients and herself. What began as a life of observation slowly became a deeper understanding of narrative medicine, trauma-informed care, listening, and the importance of slowing down in a medical system designed to move faster. Together with her own reflections, she examines what it means to unlearn old scripts, make meaning from difficult transitions, and recognize that healing is not always about getting the right answer. Sometimes, it is about being witnessed, being heard, and finding the space to ask what a crisis may be calling us to change. This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered: * Why your own story matters more than you think * How childhood migration can shape observation and identity * Why medicine often leaves out the human story * How burnout can become a turning point * Why slowing down may create space for deeper healing * How listening can change the way we care for others - - - - - About the Host: Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman is a physician, medical educator, and co-host of Too Curious MDs. A graduate of Aga Khan University Medical College, she completed her pediatric residency at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has more than two decades of clinical experience, including work as a pediatrician at Los Angeles General Hospital. She earned her Master’s in Medical Education from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, where she also coaches medical students. Her work brings together narrative medicine, trauma-informed care, integrative psychiatry, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy training, reflecting her deep interest in how stories, listening, and human connection shape healing. - - - - - Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/ [https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds [https://www.facebook.com/shamynds] Website: https://shamynds.com/ [https://shamynds.com/] Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP Website: https://palamedicine.com/ [https://palamedicine.com/] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/ [https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/ [https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/] Too Curious MDs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toocuriousmds?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr [https://www.instagram.com/toocuriousmds?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs [https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs] - - - - - PODCAST Thank you for listening. Please subscribe and share. This podcast is produced by DrTalks.com https://drtalks.com/podcast-service/ [https://drtalks.com/podcast-service/]
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