{"id":1666,"date":"2016-05-10T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2016-05-08T14:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T19:28:04","slug":"dr-baxter-buzzing-way-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/2016\/05\/10\/dr-baxter-buzzing-way-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Amy Baxter: Buzzing Her Way Out Of The ED And Into Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

It takes a lot of courage to walk away from your profession to pursue another one. Particularly when that profession is emergency medicine. After 20 years of clinical practice in both pediatric emergency medicine and pain management…Dr. Amy Baxter walked out of the ED last month for the final time.<\/span><\/p>\n

One might suspect her decision was due to burnout or impulsivity. However on the contrary, Dr.Baxter, is leaving a successful clinical and academic practice to pursue a full time profession as a business woman. A role she herself, never expected to fulfill.<\/p>\n

Dr.Amy Baxter\u2019s entrepreneurial story goes back to 2001 when she took her then four year old son Max, to his pediatrician for routine vaccinations. Baxter, who had spent part of her career doing research in pain management, found the experience to be frustrating and ironic. She believed she was well prepared to help her terrified son endure his shots. <\/span>She had prepped him with topical anesthetic creams, and had mentally prepared him on what to expect. \u201cI even brought a juice box and a book with hunt-and-find pictures to distract him,\u201d she says. But things did not go well. When the nurse plunged the needle into his arm, he initially didn\u2019t cry or react at all. But upon leaving the doctor\u2019s office, he vomited all over the floor. \u201cAfter that, every time we had to go to the doctor, he would get physically ill,\u201d Baxter says. \u201cThere I was, a pediatric emergency medicine physician and pain specialist, and I couldn\u2019t even protect my own kid. What were other parents going to do?\u201d At first, she was upset with herself for her inability to protect him from such a traumatic experience, but gradually her frustration turned into a determination to find a solution to help him and others like him with needle phobia.<\/span><\/p>\n

She had been noodling on an instant solution for pain for a year or so. One morning driving home from an night shift she noticed that the wheels of her car were out of alignment, causing her steering wheel to vibrate. As she pulled into her driveway, she noticed that the vibration had completely numbed her hands. There Baxter had her \u201cAHA!\u201d moment. She ran inside the house, grabbed a hand held massager and asked Max to sit down for an experiment. When the vibration helped, but not completely, her Eagle Scout husband suggested frozen peas in addition. \u00a0<\/span>She pressed the frozen peas against her son\u2019s arm with the massager, switched it on and pinched his skin a few inches below the vibrating massager. He didn\u2019t feel a thing! She then tried it on her two other kids. It worked so well that they didn\u2019t even feel a pinch hard enough to leave a small mark. Her husband, Louis, drew a cute little bumblebee face on the massager, and the \u201cBuzzy Bee<\/a>\u201d was born.<\/span><\/p>\n

She spent the next few years developing a prototype for the Buzzy bee, all while <\/span>continuing her clinical hours in the ED, academic responsibilities of research and lecturing. She then spent every spare moment of her day, chasing her three kids, and working on her new found hobby.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2007, Baxter applied for and received grant money to do her first controlled scientific study. In the next two years, she experienced many ups and down, disappointments and financial stressors trying to make her prototype a reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009, Baxter got her first big break by receiving a $1 million grant from the N.I.H. to develop Buzzy. With this, Baxter was able to study the impacts of pain from injections and became an advocate for pain relief and needle phobia. Later that year, Baxter launched her company <\/span>M.M.J. Labs<\/span><\/a>, named after her kids\u2014Max, Miles and Jill. <\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Baxter is one of a growing number of female entrepreneurs who is revolutionizing healthcare. Nearly a decade later, Buzzy has been adopted by more than 5,000 hospitals and clinics and by more than 70,000 users. Beyond children, Baxter also markets her wearable devices to adults with conditions requiring frequent injections: diabetes, IVF, multiple sclerosis and Crohn\u2019s disease. About half of the company\u2019s U.S. sales are to hospitals and clinics, and the other half are to individual patients on e-commerce sites. Total sales reached nearly $1 million in 2015, and the company is negotiating its first licensing deal.<\/p>\n

Although she never anticipated on becoming a fulltime business women, Dr.Baxter\u2019s story of success is certainly a testimony of the endless possibilities for women in medicine. When asked for her thoughts as she bids her colleagues adieu…Amy says \u201cI am grateful for my colleagues who learn, publish, persevere, stick with their patients until resolution. I’m grateful for the new grads who will care for my family, and develop this dedication and ethic DESPITE the 80 hour work week. \u00a0Your sacrifice, nobility, and honor shine, and I have been privileged to work with you. I will strive to make you proud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information:<\/span><\/p>\n

Buzzy’s Research Results\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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