Dr. Harkness is a Pediatrician at Nemours in Paoli. Originally from Philadelphia, and has been a hospital pediatrician in the past. He went to medical school at University of Pittsburgh and trained in Pediatric at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has been with my his practice for the last 31 years treating pediatric patients in the outpatient setting. Dr. Harkness was actually my pediatrician as well, and, amazingly, I had the opportunity to work under him in a 3rd year rotation last year. I’ve had experiences with many Pediatrician’s in the past and he is easily one of the best. Dr. Harkness has an amazing way of making the children and parents feel comfortable, while, of course, being an amazingly skilled diagnostician. Welcome Dr. Harkness.  ___ 0:00 - Intro 0:57 - Statistics About Pediatrics 3:33 - Pediatricians and Stickers 5:16 - What Is Pediatrics? 6:01 - Why Pediatrics? 9:52 - What Was Pediatrics Residency Like? 16:02 - Practicing After Residency 21:26 - Being Happy as an Outpatient Pediatrician 28:51 - Average Day of a Pediatrician 29:35 - How Did COVID Change Your Practice? 32:57 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do? 36:50 - Best Thing About Being a Pediatrician 38:14 - Worst Thing About Being a Pediatrician 41:15 - Things You Wish You Knew Before Coming Into Pediatrics 44:50 - Sneaky Tips and Tricks With Kids 51:26 - Characteristics of a Student for Pediatrics 54:13 - General Advice for People Picking Careers in Medicine 58:31 - Any Mistakes That You Made Throughout Your Career/Life? 58:59 - Common Mistakes 59:53 - Positive Qualities & Characteristics 1:03:04 - Advice for Students Looking Into Pediatrics 1:04:24 - Very Important Question! 1:06:39 - Closing Message 1:09:30 - Outro ___ Resources Co-parenting Through Separation and Divorce: Putting Your Children First by David L. Hill and Jann Blackstone - https://a.co/d/5skU6ZV ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley  Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/?hl=en Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/zachhighley Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-highley-gergel-44763766/ Business Inquiries: zachhighley@nebula.tv ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdEBAJuW5WY1QHEc6A?si=cf65ae0abbaf46a4 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-highley-show/id1666374777 ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach and I’m a medical student, and soon to be physician, in Philadelphia. Throughout these episodes I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.