While his decision to leave the world of academic medicine shocked some of his colleagues, Dr. Mirna Bowden has never regretted his choice out of the South and the head in the mountains of northwestern Montana.
Bowden has practised as a gynaecologist and obstetrician in Whitefish since 2002 after completing his residency at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and internships. She attended the University of Miami medical school and obtained his undergraduate degree in the history of the Connecticut College in New London, Conn.
The Bowden family loves outdoor and activities of the atmosphere of the small town of Whitefish where people know not only their neighbours, but almost all members of the community.
After almost a decade in the community, Dr. Bowden has delivered approximately 3 000 babies.
She sees a lot of these children and their families frequently in the virtue of being out and about participating in the activities of the community. It values particularly the opportunity to see his patients in settings outside his Office and see how the progress of life.
"I wanted to be in a small community where I knew that the people I am," she said. "" "". Whitefish was exactly what we were looking for. We really love the style of life here. »
Skiing is a true passion for Bowden, her husband, Brett and their twins, Scott and Abby, 8.
The Bowdens hit the slopes almost end of each week during the winter. The twins began skiing at age 5 and Mum said that she now has difficulty with them. Like many children, they are fearless on slopes, she said.
Once the snow melted in the mountains, the heads of families out to the adventures of hiking and camping.
Bowden and his daughter two mount horses as often as possible. She often schedules a long lunch break to slip further to the stables and mount.
Its staff is well aware of his love for horses. They block a little extra time in the appointment with his patients-loving horse. "They know that I will be busy to talk, so they just adjust the schedule," Bowden said.
"Get out and horseback riding is the thing that takes me sane," said.
In addition to their activities in the open air of families, children participate in a sport each season and karate training. "They keep me very busy," she said.
His pride is evident that she talks about her children. "They are good children for life weird that their MOM has."
When they were younger, they practiced "fire drills" both that their MOM had to make a race of emergency hospital. They access their car seats and be ready to leave, she remembers.
More than once, his children went on tours with Dr. Bowden. She remembers the first time her toddler given a newborn daughter.
"She asked me where was another," Bowden recalled. "They thought that all babies have come to two". After explaining that most babies came just one at a time, Abby answered: "how lonely."
In addition to giving their children credit to be "good kids", Bowden has praised her husband for his support for his career and his certainty that they all would work out when moving to Montana.
Essentially, he abandoned his career to move in Whitefish. It is separated from the coast guard where he had been a medical helicopter pilot. Brett now works as a network administrator.
Bowden was pregnant when the couple moved to Whitefish.
Five months after Bowden joined Dr. Randy Beach in his practice in expansion to the women's Alpine centre, twin Bowden delivered beach at the North Valley Hospital. She is now working with the nurses who cared for him at the birth of his twins.
Bowden has a lot of praise for North Valley Hospital, where she was Chief of staff from July 2009 through June 2010.
"This is a wonderful, personal hospital with large medical staff." "It is very special," she said.
Three years previously, beach and she moved their medical office in a new building across the street from the hospital, a site that they like to work at.
"Sometimes, obstetricians have 20 seconds notice if there is a problem with a patient, in the delivery," she said. Be on the street, even if they were only about five minutes away at their former location, made much difference, she said.
Not only is the relationship of Bowden to physically nearby hospital, but the working relationship between physicians and hospital officials is solid. "The hospital is very open to listening to us," she said.
This is a huge advantage for doctors to work with a hospital which listens to doctors and responds to their needs, she said. "The day I showed, they had what I had asked.".
She is particularly pleased for his patients who get use "Wonderful birth Centre hospital." Five years ago, the Valley of the North introduced his patients water births and is the only Montana hospital with this option for mothers.
Valley North "is a place for respectful of the family of having a baby," said. "Moms love it."
Many women in the Flathead Valley wants a home birth or at least a home-birth environment, she said, and they get this experience at the North Valley Hospital.
One of the trends better health care for women over the past 20 years was low-intervention births, says Bowden. Not having a take away, baby nurse immediately and keep the baby in the room with MOM make sense, she said.
She and the other doctors help a woman to provide "any position they love."
"Women find their way in birth." "We are there to help", she said. "Which becomes standard."
Bowden initially wanted to be a midwife, but changed plans and attended medical school, choosing to specialize in obstetrics.
Bowden came to Whitefish with a background of laparoscopic surgery. "Getting the robot of Leonardo da Vinci has been fun," she said. The da Vinci allows physicians to perform surgery assisted by robot, which are less invasive procedures for patients.
Bowden uses the da Vinci each week. "It has become the new normal way to surgery," she said.
With a team dedicated to robotic surgery at the Hospital of the Valley of the North, the process has become very easy, she said.
Bowden said living and practicing medicine in Whitefish are "a rare privilege." I feel so lucky that I see in this place, knowing my patients, their families grow and transform, all in a hospital that gives us the technology and support.
"It has been such an adventure."
Reporter Shelley Whittington may be reached at 758-4439 or e-mail sridenour@dailyinterlake.com.
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