Nov. 21, 2025

Whitney Wolfe, DO - Aesthetics and Wellness Practitioner in Murray, Kentucky

Double board-certified in family medicine and osteopathic manual medicine, Dr. Whitney Wolfe takes a whole-person approach to wellness—helping people feel balanced, confident, and cared for from the inside out.

As founder and medical director of Premier Spa of Murray in Kentucky, Dr. Wolfe blends hands-on healing with advanced medical aesthetics to support every aspect of her patients’ health and confidence. She believes great care means looking deeper than symptoms—listening, educating, and uncovering the root causes behind how you feel.

Her expertise spans hormone balancing, pelvic floor therapy, weight management, and skin and body rejuvenation. Using advanced technologies like radiofrequency microneedling and laser treatments, she tailors each plan to deliver natural, lasting results.

Known for her warm, educational approach, Dr. Wolfe offers complimentary consultations to help new patients feel at ease from the start. Whether your goals are wellness, confidence, or both, she helps you take control of your health—one thoughtful, evidence-based step at a time.

To learn more about Premier Spa of Murray

Follow Dr. Whitney Wolfe on Instagram @drwhitneywolfe

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ABOUT MEET THE DOCTOR 

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Host: Eva Sheie 
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Engineering: Victoria Cheng
Theme music: A Grace Sufficient by JOYSPRING

Transcript

Eva Sheie (00:06):
The purpose of this podcast is simple. We want you to get to know your doctor before meeting them in person because you're making a life-changing decision and time is scarce. The more you can learn about who your doctor is before you meet them, the better that first meeting will be. I'm your host Eva Sheie, and you're listening to Meet the Doctor. Welcome back to Meet the Doctor. My guest today is Dr. Whitney Wolfe. She's a double board certified family medicine and osteopathic manual medicine. I'm sure I screwed it up.

 

Dr. Wolfe (00:39):
You did good.

 

Eva Sheie (00:40):
And she has a wonderful med spa called Premier Spa of Murray, which is in Kentucky and I've been informed that's in southwest Kentucky. Welcome to the podcast.

 

Dr. Wolfe (00:51):
Thank you so much for having me.

 

Eva Sheie (00:53):
Okay, so let's start with that board certification you have is an unusual combination, and so what does that mean and how does it help women?

 

Dr. Wolfe (01:05):
So family medicine, I chose that specialty. I love being a jack of all trades. I wanted to be able to deliver babies, take care of babies, and do everything in between. And specifically I wanted to be able to work in rural areas and be able to provide whatever services are needed. Beyond that, I'm a firm believer in just how everything in the body is interrelated. Everything works together in one system. And so my osteopathic manual medicine board certification, basically I specialize in how the body is aligned. So that's everything from your fascia, that tissue that connects your whole body, all of your muscles, all of your bones. And here at the spa, I do a lot of treatments when it comes to hormones, lots of menopausal patients or perimenopausal patients, lots of pelvic floor rejuvenation. And for me, if a woman comes in and I'm evaluating her pelvic floor, I'm also looking at not only how strong of a Kegel or how good of a Kegel she can do, but how that pelvis is aligned. If her pelvis is out of alignment, she's going to have a leg length discrepancy. She's probably going to have some low back pain, she might have knee pain. It's all connected, and so I just love looking at somebody as a whole from the inside out and empowering their beauty however I can.

 

Eva Sheie (02:27):
How is this different from chiropractic, which might be something people are more familiar with?

 

Dr. Wolfe (02:33):
Yeah, absolutely. Chiropractic, I feel like so many people think of that as kind of that pop and crunch. Not all chiropractors approach it that way, but that's a very common way. It's kind of a level beyond that because we have a lot of different modalities, so we have ones that can do reprogramming of the body, so not only do I pop it back into, but then I also work on training your muscles to hold the body back in that correct position, which can take some time, especially if you've been out of alignment for a long time and everything. I've done training in acupuncture and cranial sacral, myofascial treatments, all sorts of things like that, and kind of the idea that your body holds onto the various traumas you've gone through and when it comes for taking care of women, having a child is an amazing process. It truly is. Whether it's C-section or vaginal, carrying that baby changes every aspect of who you are and no matter how you have that baby, you're going to have some sort of scar tissue. Your body is going to somehow carry that memory on. And so as women heal and recover from that and then go through all the hormone changes of that, I'm looking at not only are your hormones balanced, but is your entire body balanced, physically aligned?

 

Eva Sheie (03:59):
How do you approach that kind of evaluation with somebody that you have not seen before? Does it take some time?

 

Dr. Wolfe (04:05):
Oh my gosh, yes. And my staff would tell you, I am always running behind because I talk to my patients so much. If they come in and 10 times out of 10 times, they're always saying, I've just been told that I'm normal and my primary care says I'm normal, but I feel this way and I have this going on. And so I just ask them a whole bunch of questions. And in medical school, we're trained that if somebody's labs are within normal limits, the low end and the high end, that's totally okay. We're trained. It doesn't really matter where they are in that, and so for me, normal is not optimal. And so we have that whole conversation. We start talking about hormones and then if we're having symptoms of back pain, knee pain, vaginal dryness, incontinence, whether it's urinary or fecal, loss of sex drive, all of those sorts of things, then we kind of start talking about the pelvis floor and if we start those treatments, that's where my evaluation comes in.

 

Eva Sheie (05:11):
Do you find that women think this thing is just happening to me or this is a really weird symptom? Do we sort of come into that conversation thinking that this is just me?

 

Dr. Wolfe (05:23):
Yes, because I think society tells women that it is just them or that they're crazy for feeling that way because most of the time they've seen other doctors that negate their symptoms or want to treat them with an antidepressant because they've had loss of interest and aren't interested in sex and gaining weight and all this stuff, and so they'll just put a bandaid on the problem instead of getting to the root cause, which is oftentimes hormones and diet and exercise and sleep and all of these things that are so easy to talk about and hard to do.

 

Eva Sheie (05:56):
I just read a weird one that frozen shoulder was caused either by hormones or virus, and I was like, well, which one? Have you seen anything like that?

 

Dr. Wolfe (06:07):
I haven't seen anything like that. I do think that hormones have a lot to do with how all of the tissues in your body function though. So if you don't have testosterone, which really after the age of 35, your testosterone drops off at a very rapid clip, you're not going to be building muscle no matter how much you try to work out and gain that muscle back. And so if you've injured your shoulder and then you're losing that muscle and then you're not moving and using it as much, it's kind of this horrible self propagating cycle. So I'm sure hormones have something to do with that. Is it totally attributed to it? Probably not. A virus, I don't know, can cause a lot of muscle ache, so I'm sure that that can contribute as well, but again, probably not the whole thing.

 

Eva Sheie (06:54):
What other kinds of weird things do you hear about?

 

Dr. Wolfe (06:56):
I mean, I hear about everything under the sun. I would say the most common thing though is women, they just come in and they just, they've lost their zest for life, which is so depressing to me because nowadays people are living to 80 years old commonly. And so if I have a woman that's come in and especially after having a second child, there's a huge hormonal changes that really happens at that point, comes in and just has lost that zest for life, that desire to just do things is feeling just so worn out, doesn't have any energy at all, no passion.

 

Eva Sheie (07:34):
Why the second one? What did the second one do to deserve that distinction?

 

Dr. Wolfe (07:39):
I don't really know physiologically. We just know that it happens, and I think some of it might have to do with the timing because especially if they're very close together, which is a very common thing, it just seems to take a more profound effect on the body. I think a lot of it is you don't fully replete back to what would've been your normal before your first baby. And then life just gets so much busier too when you have two kids and marriage and if you're working, I mean, it's just life gets crazy. And so if that starts after the second child and then you live for a couple of decades, let's say 18 years, taking care of those kids, just slowly getting by and then all of a sudden you find yourself in my spa not feeling good and you don't know why and no one's been able to figure it out or give you any good answers for 18 years. I mean, I've had women just weep when they talk with me and I tell 'em, you're not crazy. I think we can solve a lot of this when it comes to just hormones and what you're eating and how you're sleeping and how stress is impacting your body.

 

Eva Sheie (08:45):
So when you go through that evaluation process, then what's the next thing that happens?

 

Dr. Wolfe (08:52):
So we just kind of talk about those symptoms. I hear my patients and really validate where they're coming from. We do blood work and then we figure out from what that blood work shows me, kind of what hormone supplementation they need to reach their optimal levels, and I do estrogen and testosterone and progesterone and thyroid. I look at DHEA, which is not a prescription here in America, it is in Europe, but then vitamin D and B12 and try and figure out everything about what they're eating and their bowel habits and do I need to work on pro and prebiotics and all of those sorts of things. So I normally try and get that optimized. And then if they're also having pelvic floor symptoms, particularly vaginal dryness or urinary leakage, if those issues or those dryness doesn't really get better over time, then I start talking about pelvic floor treatments and we begin kind of that treatment process.

 

(09:53):
Normally those treatments I like to do in a series of three, and then I recommend a maintenance treatment a year later. I'm a firm believer about 50% of your core strength comes from your pelvic floor, and so oftentimes even after doing that treatment series, I'll still bring them back to sit on one of the chairs I have here. It's called an ELA chair, and it does about 11,000 key goals, and so I'll just continue on them on that once a month or once every three months just to help maintain everything. We've worked so hard to build back, not to mention that core strength, which helps with everything from sitting up or taking your groceries or picking up your baby or a grandchild, all of those things. My goal is I want my patients to be reach 80, 85 years old and be strong and confident. That's all I want.

 

Eva Sheie (10:49):
You. And I have a mutual friend, and it's through that friend who's also a doctor that I learned quite a few things I did not know about the pelvic floor. And I remember when I went off and learned about it and came back to him, I said something like Anyone who does not believe there is a God should look at how the pelvic floor is constructed.

 

Dr. Wolfe (11:13):
Yes.

 

Eva Sheie (11:14):
Right?

 

Dr. Wolfe (11:14):
Yes. I mean, if you think about it, just like the sheer metrics of it, your average baby's head is nine centimeters. The average opening to your pelvic outlet rim is 10 centimeters. So the fact that you're within one centimeter through that whole process of delivering a child vaginally and then that everything bounces back and you continue to function and not have any issues and your organs aren't falling out, I mean truly it's miraculous. It really is.

 

Eva Sheie (11:48):
It is. Yeah. What kinds of things do you think we don't generally know that we should know about the pelvic floor?

 

Dr. Wolfe (11:57):
I just don't think anyone understands how important it's and what a toll it takes in our normal life. I oftentimes talk about just the weight of your internal organs, whether you're male or female, all of that weight over time. You have that pushing down on your pelvic floor and then thank you gravity, also, all the weight of that, and then you're supposed to keep all of that supported for your entire life and not have any issues with urinary leakage, sexual function, all of these things. And so I wish people would focus on the pelvic floor, even if it was just a smidgen of the amount that we focus on the glory muscles like biceps, triceps, deltoids, things like that. I'm like, if we could just reallocate some of that passion to the pelvic floor, that would also be really good. It truly is the center of all you do, and it's so sad that it's like we just ignore it until it becomes problematic and then you have urinary leakage. But it's like if you're having those symptoms, to me, that means all of your tissues have also stretched out and they've thinned out. And as a woman, that means everything. You're not getting that same mechanical stimulation that's needed for you to have a pleasurable sexual experience, and life is short. You should be enjoying it no matter what your age is. And so many people are cut short of that, and it's sad.

 

Eva Sheie (13:26):
It's sad. I think the thing that shocked me the most was that if you injured it, let's say it stretched too far or even didn't bounce back at all after you had a child, you would not be able to feel that. And so for a lot of women it goes completely undiagnosed and untreated. I think the average was for 16 years or 14 years, you just wouldn't even know. And so you could be doing Kegels every day, and there is a point where you could tell me if I've got this wrong or right. There's a point where you can't do anything. You actually have to get it treated in order for it to come back.

 

Dr. Wolfe (14:06):
Yep, yep. Absolutely. I mean, the reality is in healthcare, we don't teach women how to do a Kegel. We just say, stop your urine

 

Eva Sheie (14:16):
At a stoplight.

 

Dr. Wolfe (14:18):
How does that even work? And so it's like here you are as a new mother with a baby, you've just had a horrific tear because at least 80% of women with their first vaginal delivery have a significant tear. And so it's like if you have a tear, you go home on ibuprofen, which is going to decrease your inflammation, which means your scar tissue is going to form being more pronounced, and then we just tell you hold your urine. You can't feel anything. You're stressing out all the time you're trying to breastfeed. So this is a thing that affects all women and it starts from such a young age and then it just is sad. I don't even normally see 'em until my favorite patients are when they come in and they're 60 or 70 years old and they're like, I just want to get my life back. Or they're out dating again and they're like, I'm so embarrassed. I don't want to leak while I'm on a date or worry about wearing depends or coughing or sneezing too much. And so it's like I get the hormones and we get the pelvic floor and they get their confidence back and then they're like, oh, what can I do about this wrinkle or a little brown spot over here? Then we transition into all the fun lasers and toxins.

 

Eva Sheie (15:36):
It's a slippery slope.

 

Dr. Wolfe (15:38):
Well, it's just so fun to see women. It's like they truly come back to life again. And men too, men too. I do tons of men.

 

Eva Sheie (15:48):
This happens with weight loss too. If you lose a lot of weight or even a little, you start feeling better after just a few pounds.

 

Dr. Wolfe (15:57):
And that's something I do here too. I do weight loss medications and I microdose all of them because I find if people are coming to me for weight loss, that usually means that their insurance has not covered that medication, which means they're not a diabetic with heart disease, with high cholesterol, all of these prequalifications that insurance requires. And so it's like if you're coming to me normally you don't have a huge amount to lose. I typically see 50 pounds or less. And so it's like if we just microdose just a little tiny of that weight loss medication, it's just enough to empower people to turn off that food noise so they can be a lot more mindful about what they're taking in. So that's when I'm talking with them about increasing protein intake, we making sure they're getting plenty of fiber and just slowly changing those little habits so then it becomes sustainable when they come off of that medication.

 

Eva Sheie (16:58):
When you are microdosing, we're talking about GLP ones and probably compounded versions?

 

Dr. Wolfe (17:04):
And I don't do a GLP one. I do GLP twos and I do a GLP three and the GLP three that I use retatrutide, it's not even FDA approved. It's currently in the trials, and I tell my patients that when they come in, but it also hits the glucagon receptor. And so I feel like it's a little bit more powerful at maintaining a steady state of glucose in your body while also protecting your skeletal muscle. For me, again, like I said, I want my patients to be 80 plus years old and be strong and confident, and so if I have them on a weight loss medication and they start losing skeletal muscle, I stop that medicine or I decrease the dose. I mean, I'm always checking their body composition because to me, losing 10 pounds not worth losing your strength because then that affects your functionality. And again, that gets back into my board certification and osteopathic medicine because then I'm like, then you're losing alignment and movement and all these important things.

 

Eva Sheie (18:01):
Can you move to Austin?

 

Dr. Wolfe (18:04):
Yeah, sure.

 

Eva Sheie (18:06):
How do you check for body composition? Do you monitor that with something in particular?

 

Dr. Wolfe (18:11):
Yeah, I have a scale. It's called an in body scale, and so it works based off of impedance, so it basically sends an electrical signal through your body and it tells me how hydrated you are, your percentage of skeletal muscle mass, your percentage of fat. It also adjusts it based off of your age and your height, so you're getting demographic based information. And so any of my weight loss clients, I have them come in at least once a month to stand on the scale so I can evaluate that and look at their skeletal muscle mass. That also helps me calculate their basal metabolic rate and how much protein they need and everything to maintain that while they're trying to lose weight.

 

Eva Sheie (18:55):
Not seeing how I know. But you can cheat on an InBody pretty easily by putting change in your pockets or

 

Dr. Wolfe (19:04):
Yes. Yes, and I mean, I don't like heckle my patients that bad. I wouldn't be like, oh, you need to strip totally down to stand on this scale. But I do try, and

 

Eva Sheie (19:17):
Where I was going with that was how do you make sure that the conditions are the same every month so it doesn't mess.

 

Dr. Wolfe (19:22):
I mean, to some extent I expect a little bit of error in that analysis. It's one of the best scales out there on the market, but there's nothing that we do in medicine is perfect, and so I have 'em take off metal jewelry, take off all their shoes. Ideally they shouldn't be wearing jeans. I like to have 'em come in about the same time of the day, all of these things. But also life happens, and so I always expect a pound or two fluctuation in there, and the scale automatically actually takes into account about a pound of clothing. But sometimes it's more than that, especially going into the winter.

 

Eva Sheie (20:01):
I did it when I was about to do the orange theory transformation challenge.

 

Dr. Wolfe (20:07):
Yes.

 

Eva Sheie (20:07):
And I went and read, how do you cheat so that you weigh more at the beginning so that when I got to the end, I would have an extra boost of weight loss. And then right in the middle of this, me trying to trick the scale, which really speaks to who I used to be pretty well. A doctor told me about Semaglutide at the time, and so then this was almost three years ago, I went down that road and was very successful.

 

Dr. Wolfe (20:36):
Good for you. Did you make it through your Orange Theory classes?

 

Eva Sheie (20:41):
No.

 

Dr. Wolfe (20:41):
Those are so hard.

 

Eva Sheie (20:43):
I did really well the previous year. I think I lost 16 pounds, but somebody else beat me probably because they were cheating. No, I don't know if they were cheating, but

 

Dr. Wolfe (20:55):
Who knows? But good for you for trying. I mean, those are very intense classes.

 

Eva Sheie (20:59):
Oh, yeah. I mean, it's actually pretty easy to do it at your own level. I think the most important thing is that we got to do something.

 

Dr. Wolfe (21:09):
Yes. And that's what I always, anything is better than nothing. Yeah, that's what I always tell my patients. I mean, just today, one of the things I do love about the In body Scan is it gives you measurements for each extremity, which gives me a lot of information because if there's an imbalance between let's say your right and left arm, that means you probably had the injury somewhere before, which again cues me as an osteopathic physician, like, okay, where is that injury? How is that affecting your day-to-day life? But today I had a patient who on the left side was much more weak than on the right side, and the patient had had a shoulder injury and all of this stuff and is very not active, doesn't move a lot, is very intimidated by the idea of going to the gym. So we were talking about, okay, if you're right-handed, you probably when you open the refrigerator, pick up your milk with your right hand or you probably carry your purse with your right hand. All these things you naturally do with your right hand. And I'm like, if your left hand is weak, I want you to start doing those day-to-day activities with your left hand to try and build that strength back up. And so for me, it's thinking that things that you could build into your day-to-day life to recover strength from an injury, start there. Don't start by joining a gym and planning on going five days a week. All of a sudden, that's impossible to maintain.

 

Eva Sheie (22:37):
Yeah, you wouldn't get very far. You might make it for a day or two

 

Dr. Wolfe (22:40):
Yeah, I'd love it if we could all do that, but that's just not reality. So just whatever gets people to move, I'm happy with.

 

Eva Sheie (22:48):
Get outside in the sunshine.

 

Dr. Wolfe (22:50):
Yes, yes. It makes such a huge difference. There's a half a mile loop I do in my neighborhood every day no matter what the weather, no matter what is going on at the spa or the hospital or whatever, I have to do that for my own mental health and I just walk at a pretty fast clip, but I just walk and it's for my stress, it's for anxiety, it's for setting my mind to do its best during the day, all of those things. And yeah, it happens to get my heart rate up and maybe burn a few calories, but that's also not why I do it.

 

Eva Sheie (23:24):
Take us through all the services and in particular what technology you have there in the spa. I'm really curious.

 

Dr. Wolfe (23:31):
Sure. We have a lot of technology. So we have the Empower device, which is an in mode device, and that's what Dr. Ramirez had developed. The AVEVA aspect of that, we don't do AVEVA here in our practice currently, but I do the Morpheus eight V, which is the vaginal and vulvar microneedling. I do form V, which is the vaginal radio frequency. So I use that a lot when it comes to vaginal dryness, V tone, which I use when I'm really trying to kind of neuro reprogram somebody how to do a Kegel, and I'm teaching them as I do that. If they don't need that, then I'm using our Emcella chair that does Kegels for 'em. I do like that that activates your glutes and your hamstrings a little bit. And I have a lot of men that come and sit on it too. We do this sexual wellness function, which really helps, especially after prostate surgery, beyond pelvic floor and vaginal rejuvenation, we do a lot of body sculpting.

 

(24:29):
So I have the Cool Sculpting Elite. So we do all of that, which is great for freezing specific areas of fat. We'll especially use it after weight loss, like somebody might get down to their ideal weight but still have pesky fat on their arms or an area of the belly that doesn't go away. And so that's where we'll kind of CoolSculpt. I'm normally combining my CoolSculpting with Emsculpt Neo as well, which is that same technology as my fancy chair in that it uses a strong magnet to activate all of your muscles. So if I treat an abdomen, it's equivalent to doing like 20,000 crunches. And so if I have a patient who has lost weight but has a pesky area of fat in their belly, I'll cool sculpt it, but then I'll Emsculpt too to try and gain their strength and address that fatty tissue.

 

(25:18):
I do a lot of Morpheus eight when it comes to the abdomen. We were talking about that. I have a lot of women who come in after a C-section who hate their kind of shelf that they get above their C-section scar. And so I'll often cool sculpt above the scar and then I morpheus over their C-sections scar and it kind of frees up that tissue, so it helps flatten things out. I love Morphous eight. It's like my top selling thing. I do it all over the body. It's that microneedling procedure, and I normally combine it with a laser depending on where I am in the body. So in the face I'll combine it with an ultra laser to deal with reds and browns, in the extremities sometimes I'll combine it with my Clarity two laser, which will help then just with more collagen production or if people have spider veins or things like that, it'll take care of.

 

(26:10):
So yeah, we have those as two lasers as well, which helps with skin quality, texture, and tone veins. It can do warts of all things. I haven't done many of those. We do lots of acne treatment packages, so for deep cystic acne and teenagers, their parents will bring 'em in and they'll say, we really don't want to do Accutane, can you help? And so we'll just do some laser treatments and get that deep acne addressed. And then we also have the HydraFacial devices, so that's like a medical grade facial as well. So lots of technology. It's pretty amazing what we can do nowadays with technology and medicine.

 

Eva Sheie (26:49):
You can't certainly be doing all of this yourself. So tell us about your team.

 

Dr. Wolfe (26:53):
Oh, no, my team is amazing. I am the luckiest person alive to work with this amazing group of women. So there's 11 of us total, and we calculated this just today actually. We have 144 years of clinical experience combined. And so we have people from every different background. I have some who've been doing in medicine for a handful of years, and I have a nurse who's been in medicine for 33 years. And so I love having people here in every walk of life. And so there are two nurses, a pa, an A PRN, two estheticians. I have an office manager, front desk girls, social media. I mean, we have everybody, and it's just such an awesome group.

 

Eva Sheie (27:42):
If I am listening today and I am curious about making an appointment or finding out more, where should I go to find out more about you and your wonderful team?

 

Dr. Wolfe (27:52):
If you just want to kind of read about our services, you can always go to my website. That's murrayspa.com. You can give us a call or from the website, you can book an appointment. I do free consults, so it's 45 minutes of my time where I just sit down and focus on my patients. And I don't charge for that because I think it's so important for people to be heard, and I talk so much, so I know that I need that amount of time.

 

Eva Sheie (28:16):
It's for you.

 

Dr. Wolfe (28:17):
It's for me. And then I also am super passionate about just educating people and getting the word out about what we do. I think there's so much that we do that can just help the general community. So the spa social media page, premier Spa Murray on Instagram and Facebook. And then my personal page too, Dr. Whitney Wolfe. I am always making videos. Every day I post an educational video and I come up with those videos based off of questions that patients ask me. So normally questions that I get a handful of times, I just keep a list in my phone and then I try and do a whole bunch of things kind of about that same topic within a week or so. So I'm always just trying to get the word out.

 

Eva Sheie (29:06):
What do you like to do when you're not at work?

 

Dr. Wolfe (29:08):
I love music. So I come from a music background. Actually. I started out my undergrad as a viola performance major and ended up being a viola minor. Music has shaped everything that I do. I've always been extremely good with my hands and very fine movements with those. And so as an undergrad, I went from doing that to then studying music in the brain and how the brain processes down. And I was a prep surgeon for many years for the Institute of Neuroscience at U of O, doing surgeries, these little tiny one. And I thought I wanted to be a neurosurgeon actually, because that combines my love for science and my ability with my hands. But then I just realized I want more of a life than that, and I love being a generalist. I want to empower these small communities. So needless to say, I love music. It shaped everything that I do. Give me any type of music and a nice glass of red wine. That's my perfect night, especially when I'm out on my patio. I love that. But yeah, I have some good friends, so trying to hang out with them, and I'm always out. I plant a lot. I have a big garden and a big yard, and so it's just simple things like that that I love.

 

Eva Sheie (30:24):
I don't think that I've ever met another violist that was a doctor, much less so had one on the podcast, so

 

Dr. Wolfe (30:32):
That's so crazy. There are not many violists in the world, and I always have to explain that it's a big version of a violin slash a small version of a cello because no one knows what that even is. So it's crazy to be talking to somebody who knows.

 

Eva Sheie (30:46):
Yes, I know. I got a gig, someone texted me yesterday and I looked at it and I went, oh, no. Now I got to practice. Yeah, like three weeks maybe.

 

Dr. Wolfe (30:57):
You can do it.

 

Eva Sheie (30:59):
So I just have to put it back in the routine.

 

Dr. Wolfe (31:01):
Yes, you can do it up for a little while. Just got to up so I

 

Eva Sheie (31:03):
Yeah. Yep. It really has been a pleasure to get to know you today. I'm so glad that Dr. Ramirez sent you my way.

 

Dr. Wolfe (31:13):
Oh, well thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me. It's been so delightful and odd how our worlds have kind of coincided in some different ways and we didn't even know. And I hope our path crashes again sometime soon in the future, maybe even in person. Great.

 

Eva Sheie (31:30):
I hope so. The website is murrayspa.com and we'll put all of the links in the show notes to make Dr. Wolfe very easy to find

 

Dr. Wolfe (31:38):
Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

 

Eva Sheie (31:41):
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