in the wild

Patty Olino is a nursing student from Fresno about to graduate next month. But she's not your typical nursing student, because she's also pre-med. When the traditional path to becoming a doctor didn’t work for her, she decided to forge her own. In fact, Patty went off the path altogether, following her gut, her passion and her true calling in the most important aspects of her life.

Like the other extraordinary women featured on In the Wild, Dr. Eugenia Nieto is a doctor. She wears scrubs (Fabled, of course), carries a stethoscope, and has a knack for saving lives. But this LA-based mother-of-three is no ordinary doc. Her patients are furry, feathery and scaly. Dr. Nieto is a veterinarian who works at an emergency and critical care facility for animals. And when she’s not running after her patients, she’s running a household, or literally, just running. Keep reading to see what keeps her on the move.

Dr. Vi Ngo is a pediatric resident based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her interview with Fabled beautifully highlights how even when life is full of twists and turns, it doesn't mean we get lost. Take a page from her book and you'll see how living authentically and embracing the journey will always get you to where you need to go.

We're going to go out on a limb and guess that most people think that "ER doc" and "olympic pole vaulter" are mutually exclusive career paths. Dr. Leila Ben-Youssef is not most people. That's why you have to meet her. She's an emergency medicine physician in the San Francisco Bay Area and she shares with us how she embraces challenge and adventure in her life.

Dr. Elisa Malin is a pediatric hospitalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Few of us truly appreciate the importance of play and spontaneity in leading a full, happy life as much as she does. Maybe it's the pediatrician in her, but we think she's on to something.

Dr. Audrey Lance is an assistant professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. She's the Medical Director of the Outpatient Clinic at Magee-Womens Hospital, and Director of the Ryan Residency Training Program, a program aimed at improving family planning training for OB/GYN residents. Basically, she's a professional superhero for women's health.

Dr. Stella de la Vega is an urgent care physician practicing in Long Beach, California who transitioned to Family Medicine from Surgery in search for more work-life balance. It feels like there's not much she can't do, or won't at least try, which might be the most impressive thing about her.

Dr. Hannah Woebkenberg is an Emergency Medicine physician working in three San Francisco Bay Area hospital emergency rooms. It's only May and she's already been to the Dominican Republic to set up health clinics for the underserved and then New Mexico to build sustainable homes by hand.