Dr Jennifer Gaudiani: Sick Enough

In this episode Millie chats to Dr Jennifer Gaudiani. Dr Gaudiani is the Founder and Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical school at Boston University School of Medicine and her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale.

Dr. Gaudiani served as the Medical Director at the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders, the top hospital program in the USA for critically ill adults with anorexia nervosa, prior to founding the Gaudiani Clinic. The Gaudiani Clinic is a Denver based outpatient medical clinic dedicated to people with eating disorders and disordered eating which is a weight-inclusive setting that embraces treating people of all shapes, sizes, ages, and genders.

Dr. Gaudiani has also recently published her first book Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders. They discuss her holistic approach to patient care, the power of a narrative and metaphor in eating disorder recovery, what makes the Gaudiani Clinic unique, the harmful myth of needing to be ‘sick enough’ to receive treatment and the importance of connection and relationships in recovery. 

 

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