Series 4, Episode 10 - What's Been Broken Is All the More Sharp by Dominique Lee

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All I hope for is to be, as you say, the kind of mentor I wish I had, um, giving people permission to be who they are within medicine.

But don't let anybody else tell you that, uh, uh, your career should look like X, Y, Z. That's something that is really beautiful.

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[gentle music] Hey, everybody.

It's Date with a Debut time here.

I'm Nick Wassilieff on beautiful Awabakal country, and today we are diving into a special, amazing true story about power, recovering from deep trauma, and survival.

For today, I chat with an incredible woman, advocate, doctor, and founder of Hey Boss, a physician wellbeing company dedicated to humanizing healthcare, the one and only Dominique Lee.

Her debut memoir, What's Been Broken is All the More Sharp, is published by Dean Publishing in collaboration with Simon & Schuster.

And it documents her journey making history as the first doctor to successfully win a criminal court case against a senior professor for sexual assault.

Needless to say, this podcast and this book does come with a trigger warning around sexual assau- assault, and the best way is to speak about it honestly and directly.

And if this is something that has happened to you, I've listed several resources, including 1-800-RESPECT, Full Stop Australia, and more in the description.

Help is available to you.

And as a courtesy, I will also include a timestamp in the show notes when Dominique and I discuss the event and its fallout in question.

But I'm very, very glad to be discussing this book.

This book is out in the world now.

You can get it down in the description box.

You can get it at your local bookstore.

Check it out at your local library.

Get it online.

Whatever suits you best.

Joining me all the way from beautiful Meanjin, Dom, welcome to Date with a Debut.

Thank you so much for having me, Nick.

My absolute pleasure to be here.