Dr. Kimberly Manning Bio

: She's here for a follow up visit. Last visit was in October 2009.

Dr. Kimberly Manning became a physician – in part – because her father could not.

His college counselor told him, in 1961, that he couldn't go to medical school. That he was a black man in Birmingham, Alabama, and that the likelihood of him getting a job and getting into medical school was very low. He told me that story when I was maybe a junior in high school. Maybe as a bit of an homage him, I really started wanting to go to medical school.

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Today, she leads rounds, overseeing Emory University residents at Grady Hospital in inner city Atlanta. Board certified both as a pediatrician and an internist.

: Who is her support system at home?

She strongly believes in a humanist approach to medicine.

: Sounds like at 19 you have a lot of stuff going on right now.

I'm not here just treating patients like they're mannequins.

: You've probably felt us do this to you before.

I am living out my passion in terms of being a teaching physician.

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…being a role model, but also just having this opportunity to walk in and humanize our patients.

The Good Doctor Is In — Today Dr. Kimberly Manning shares some of her favorite things for a healthy lifestyle.

Dr. Manning offers guidance outside the hospital and over the airwaves – making weekly Morning House Calls on local TV.

: Ok. Do you want to try to do the whole thing?

But above all – family comes first.

I know that the balance that I have in getting home to my kids, to pick them up from school every day,

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...reading them stories at night...

: …before the sun rises too high…

Hanging out with them and my husband every day, those are things that, I think, make me a better doctor. What she sees at home – she enthusiastically shares with new parents. Now I sort of know that each little step, they just change so fast. I mean, what you see at the newborn period, next three months, to four months, to six months, it is dramatic. And I often do tell moms, look, no one knows your baby like you. Cut yourself some slack, but also enjoy your baby. Just enjoy your baby.