February 4, 2025 • 10 mins
The Boden triplets are orthopedic surgeons for UofL Health. Lauren, Stephanie, and Allison pursued the family business - mom, dad, grandmothers, and other relatives - are doctors, so it seemed like a comfortable fit. Lauren (spine), Stephanie (sports), and Allison (feet & ankles) often consult each other and occasionally partner up in surgery.
Here's their story on how these Georgia athletes stuck together through school and,, after separating for residencies, reunited in Louisville.
And there's another Boden sister ready to graduate and hopefully join her sisters at UofL Health.
Here's their story on how these Georgia athletes stuck together through school and,, after separating for residencies, reunited in Louisville.
And there's another Boden sister ready to graduate and hopefully join her sisters at UofL Health.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're a news radio eight forty whas you're with news
radio A forty whas you're with news radio A forty wahs.
I'm doing everything in threes today. Hello Allison, Hi, how
are you great. It's great to see you, Lauren. It's
a pleasure to meet you as well.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And Stephanie is right here in the middle. They're triplets. Hi, Stephanie. Hello,
you're also all orthopedic surgeons for U of L Health. Fantastic.
First off, how many triplets are doctors? If you've looked
up on some registries somewhere, there can't be that many, right,
I have.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Never looked that up. Got to be honest, it can't
be many.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I mean, wow, that's just a phenomenal thing I heard
about the three of you and your amazing childhood. Because
there's lots of doctors in the family, Lauren.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Lots of doctors in the family, probably too many to count.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
My grandma, both grandparents on my mom's.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Side, Yeah, and dad, I know.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Dad, and aunt and uncle, our mom, three sisters, great grandparent.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, you got another sister who's coming through what residency
now or where is she Stephanie?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, she's in her last year of orthpedic surgery residency
in Pittsburgh right now, and then she'll be doing her
fellowship next year and then we're gonna hopefully recruit her here.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That would be awesome. That was just fantastic. And then Allison,
your pop was talking to someone who asked about the
three of you. At some point I hear, yeah, exactly,
they knew about you as kids, but then they said,
how are your daughters.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Yes, so our current chair, doctor On happened to be
at a meeting with our dad and it was in
the phase where we were all looking for academic jobs,
and Lauren had reached out to her dad and was like, Hey,
if you have anyone looking.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
For people to hire, like give them my name.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
And doctor On just happened to be sitting next to
our dad and it previously interviewed with him and remembered
seeing a picture of us on his desk and happened
to ask what we were up to and kind of
the rest of his history.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So U of l pitches the three of you instead
of one. Is that what happened? Pretty much what happened. Stephanie,
who was the first one to say yes.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Well, I think we all ended up officially saying yes
at the same time. But Lauren was the first one
to come in well to interview with doctor on over
the phone, and then she said, Hey, guys, I think
you should check this out because it'd be pretty cool
if we all got a job together and it had
all the things we were looking for. So then Allie
and I sent in our resumes. We actually all came
(02:40):
and interviewed on the same day, which was kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Did they interview you individually?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
They did? We same trip.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Interesting. We liked two of you, but one of you
there was a psychological testing answer.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That exactly.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
We said.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
If they wanted the two of us, they had to
pay Galley too.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I knew there was going to be somebody to be
this sister. Oh that's fantastic. So to you know anything
about Louisville You all went to school elsewhere?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, I had driven through once and as a baseball
player and fan, I had stopped at the Louisville Slugger
kind of bat factory, But that was about all I
knew about this town before coming from my interview.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, that's right, you're the baseball legend, aren't you. In
the Guinness Book of World records, Lauren, I am, I am,
tell me about that.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
In high school, my dad actually wanted to try to
set a record for the greatest number of siblings on
the same like high school sports team and the Guinness
World Record.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
People had no interest in that. Nobody really cares, which
is totally reasonable.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But in the process, we found out that there was
a fastest pitch by a baseball player who was male,
but not a female baseball player, and so that record
was kind of open for the taking and there's a
lot of hoops you have to jump through. But I
was able to set it as high school player and
then break my own record in college.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I heard about that breaking the record in college. Did
college do anything special for it for breaking the record? No,
not at all, Laura and Bode moves that, Oh that's me.
I broke my own record.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It was on a TV show in Australia though it
was it was thank you for bringing that up stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It was a kid's TV show out of the UK.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Actually it called officially Amazing, and they were trying to
kind of go around and you know, find sports that
weren't as popular in the UK, and so they came
over and wanted to film me and I was like,
all right, I'll do it, but you gotta let me
try to break my records.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I knew I could throw harder.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So do you consult with each other on medical issues
the time?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
All the time, every day even in training because we
were all in separate residency programs, so we had a
group chat where we would constantly be talking about, you know,
different patients and surgeries and what would you do here,
what would you do there? And that's evolved into now
Stephanie and I actually are doing a lot of surgeries
together so that we have help in the operating room
(05:02):
as we're getting started.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You know, people talk about twins and how they just
have this sense of what the other one's doing all
the time. Does that work with triplets? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
We also we used to convince people that we were telepathic.
We would have like a list of words that we
all had memorized that we would go through, So we
convinced a lot of people growing up that we were
actually telepathic.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
We are not.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's fun, but it's fun. But if somebody's having a
rough day to you sense it, Stephanie or.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I feel like just knowing each other really well from
spending a lot of time together over our entire lives.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I can usually pick up on things before other people.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So I don't know, sense might be a little bit strong,
but I can usually tell just by walking to a
room and kind of seeing body language and you know, attitude,
how things are going.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And you are competitive. I know that. I've just talking
to you off there before we got started. I love that.
I love all that. So is a golf over the
holidays that the three of you would compete?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yes, we have a family scrambled that probably started four
or five years ago. Historically it's been the five kids
in our family against the kids and are like our cousins.
But this year there were too many of us, so
we had three teams, so we were split up, but
Steph's team edged us out by one stroke.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
When U of L Health offered the triplets. You know,
did we have to argue about who gets the parking
space closest to the door another competition?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, they've treated us pretty well.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I know they're really excited about it. That what the
three of you bring. The energy you're bringing to their
orthopedics department, and you know, obviously you're getting a lot
of notice. But still the work is very rewarding, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
It's I think what all drove us all into orthopedics
is kind of seeing the outcomes of taking a patient
from having an injury and going through the whole recovery
process and getting out the other side. So you know,
we're in the early stages now where we're just starting
to see some of our patients come back.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
But it's definitely rewarding.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And Stephanie your your sports, right, So has pickleball just
just quadrupled the business for doctor orthopedic doctors?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
It has.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
It's funny we actually joined to pick a ball league here,
so we're trying to bring our business cards.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Anyone with Achilles pundon injuries, he certainly comes see.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Me and Allison, your your feet and ankles Achilles. Oh
that just sounds painful just even saying it out loud.
But yeah, well, this is the time of year. We
have to remind people that if you've been quiet over
the winter months and it gets warm and you think
I'm gonna go out and run nine miles today, what
do you tell them? First? Steady, slow and steady, and
(07:47):
then stretching comes after you're finished, Right before and after before,
but if you have cold muscles. I always thought it
was like they always say, like the rubber band and
the cold Yeah. But and then you, Lauren, specialize in
spine work.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yep, spine surgery.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Is that what your dad did? It is he still works,
But you had it in your mind. I guess at
some point in your life, I'm not just going to
follow the path. I'm going to do something different than
my dad. How did so? How did this wind up?
You came home here?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, that's a great question, because at every single stage
I tried to do something different, and then coincidentally, I
picked the same major in college. I went to medical school,
and then I went into orthetic surgery, and then I
picked spine surgery. So there were a lot of choices
along the way, and I basically just made sure I
was doing it for.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The right reasons and for me.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But I still think it's the coolest subsection of all
the different choices that I could have picked.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And I really enjoyed taking care of spine patients.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's so nice that you get to walk through life together.
I mean, that's such a bonus. You know, I'm one
of fourteen children, and we we we all love each
other all in the same text thread, and I know
what that feels like. But they're not all here. It's
got to be fun to be, you know, just to
have each other, just to lean on and just know
(09:00):
and have fun too, your leisure time things. So I
hope this this is a long, healthy run for you
here and nobody decides no, I want to be a
sharp a.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Guy, Paul, I hope so too. It's been fun being
together so far. So absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
If somebody's going to break up the band, that's going
to be Lauren, not me.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
She's always the troublemaker.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I could feel that all the way through. Well, it's
a thrill to meet you, and I appreciate you. Guys
give me a few minutes. So I hope I didn't
pull you away from important work down the street.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
The three doctor Bowden's Lauren, Stephanie and Allison, all at
U of l Health Orthopedic surgeons and good folks, and
we're so glad you fell in love with our community.
Thanks to that much better great to have you here.
Please come back and visit sometime.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Absolutely thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Would you mind taking a look at this hamstring? I'm
not gonna you get that all the time. We're back
in a minute on news radio. Wait forty w ain'h
a s
You're a news radio eight forty whas you're with news
radio A forty whas you're with news radio A forty wahs.
I'm doing everything in threes today. Hello Allison, Hi, how
are you great. It's great to see you, Lauren. It's
a pleasure to meet you as well.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And Stephanie is right here in the middle. They're triplets. Hi, Stephanie. Hello,
you're also all orthopedic surgeons for U of L Health. Fantastic.
First off, how many triplets are doctors? If you've looked
up on some registries somewhere, there can't be that many, right,
I have.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Never looked that up. Got to be honest, it can't
be many.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I mean, wow, that's just a phenomenal thing I heard
about the three of you and your amazing childhood. Because
there's lots of doctors in the family, Lauren.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Lots of doctors in the family, probably too many to count.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
My grandma, both grandparents on my mom's.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Side, Yeah, and dad, I know.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Dad, and aunt and uncle, our mom, three sisters, great grandparent.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, you got another sister who's coming through what residency
now or where is she Stephanie?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, she's in her last year of orthpedic surgery residency
in Pittsburgh right now, and then she'll be doing her
fellowship next year and then we're gonna hopefully recruit her here.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That would be awesome. That was just fantastic. And then Allison,
your pop was talking to someone who asked about the
three of you. At some point I hear, yeah, exactly,
they knew about you as kids, but then they said,
how are your daughters.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Yes, so our current chair, doctor On happened to be
at a meeting with our dad and it was in
the phase where we were all looking for academic jobs,
and Lauren had reached out to her dad and was like, Hey,
if you have anyone looking.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
For people to hire, like give them my name.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
And doctor On just happened to be sitting next to
our dad and it previously interviewed with him and remembered
seeing a picture of us on his desk and happened
to ask what we were up to and kind of
the rest of his history.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So U of l pitches the three of you instead
of one. Is that what happened? Pretty much what happened. Stephanie,
who was the first one to say yes.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Well, I think we all ended up officially saying yes
at the same time. But Lauren was the first one
to come in well to interview with doctor on over
the phone, and then she said, Hey, guys, I think
you should check this out because it'd be pretty cool
if we all got a job together and it had
all the things we were looking for. So then Allie
and I sent in our resumes. We actually all came
(02:40):
and interviewed on the same day, which was kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Did they interview you individually?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
They did? We same trip.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Interesting. We liked two of you, but one of you
there was a psychological testing answer.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That exactly.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
We said.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
If they wanted the two of us, they had to
pay Galley too.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I knew there was going to be somebody to be
this sister. Oh that's fantastic. So to you know anything
about Louisville You all went to school elsewhere?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, I had driven through once and as a baseball
player and fan, I had stopped at the Louisville Slugger
kind of bat factory, But that was about all I
knew about this town before coming from my interview.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, that's right, you're the baseball legend, aren't you. In
the Guinness Book of World records, Lauren, I am, I am,
tell me about that.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
In high school, my dad actually wanted to try to
set a record for the greatest number of siblings on
the same like high school sports team and the Guinness
World Record.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
People had no interest in that. Nobody really cares, which
is totally reasonable.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But in the process, we found out that there was
a fastest pitch by a baseball player who was male,
but not a female baseball player, and so that record
was kind of open for the taking and there's a
lot of hoops you have to jump through. But I
was able to set it as high school player and
then break my own record in college.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I heard about that breaking the record in college. Did
college do anything special for it for breaking the record? No,
not at all, Laura and Bode moves that, Oh that's me.
I broke my own record.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It was on a TV show in Australia though it
was it was thank you for bringing that up stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It was a kid's TV show out of the UK.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Actually it called officially Amazing, and they were trying to
kind of go around and you know, find sports that
weren't as popular in the UK, and so they came
over and wanted to film me and I was like,
all right, I'll do it, but you gotta let me
try to break my records.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I knew I could throw harder.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So do you consult with each other on medical issues
the time?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
All the time, every day even in training because we
were all in separate residency programs, so we had a
group chat where we would constantly be talking about, you know,
different patients and surgeries and what would you do here,
what would you do there? And that's evolved into now
Stephanie and I actually are doing a lot of surgeries
together so that we have help in the operating room
(05:02):
as we're getting started.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You know, people talk about twins and how they just
have this sense of what the other one's doing all
the time. Does that work with triplets? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
We also we used to convince people that we were telepathic.
We would have like a list of words that we
all had memorized that we would go through, So we
convinced a lot of people growing up that we were
actually telepathic.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
We are not.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's fun, but it's fun. But if somebody's having a
rough day to you sense it, Stephanie or.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I feel like just knowing each other really well from
spending a lot of time together over our entire lives.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I can usually pick up on things before other people.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So I don't know, sense might be a little bit strong,
but I can usually tell just by walking to a
room and kind of seeing body language and you know, attitude,
how things are going.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And you are competitive. I know that. I've just talking
to you off there before we got started. I love that.
I love all that. So is a golf over the
holidays that the three of you would compete?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yes, we have a family scrambled that probably started four
or five years ago. Historically it's been the five kids
in our family against the kids and are like our cousins.
But this year there were too many of us, so
we had three teams, so we were split up, but
Steph's team edged us out by one stroke.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
When U of L Health offered the triplets. You know,
did we have to argue about who gets the parking
space closest to the door another competition?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, they've treated us pretty well.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I know they're really excited about it. That what the
three of you bring. The energy you're bringing to their
orthopedics department, and you know, obviously you're getting a lot
of notice. But still the work is very rewarding, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
It's I think what all drove us all into orthopedics
is kind of seeing the outcomes of taking a patient
from having an injury and going through the whole recovery
process and getting out the other side. So you know,
we're in the early stages now where we're just starting
to see some of our patients come back.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
But it's definitely rewarding.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And Stephanie your your sports, right, So has pickleball just
just quadrupled the business for doctor orthopedic doctors?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
It has.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
It's funny we actually joined to pick a ball league here,
so we're trying to bring our business cards.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Anyone with Achilles pundon injuries, he certainly comes see.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Me and Allison, your your feet and ankles Achilles. Oh
that just sounds painful just even saying it out loud.
But yeah, well, this is the time of year. We
have to remind people that if you've been quiet over
the winter months and it gets warm and you think
I'm gonna go out and run nine miles today, what
do you tell them? First? Steady, slow and steady, and
(07:47):
then stretching comes after you're finished, Right before and after before,
but if you have cold muscles. I always thought it
was like they always say, like the rubber band and
the cold Yeah. But and then you, Lauren, specialize in
spine work.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yep, spine surgery.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Is that what your dad did? It is he still works,
But you had it in your mind. I guess at
some point in your life, I'm not just going to
follow the path. I'm going to do something different than
my dad. How did so? How did this wind up?
You came home here?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, that's a great question, because at every single stage
I tried to do something different, and then coincidentally, I
picked the same major in college. I went to medical school,
and then I went into orthetic surgery, and then I
picked spine surgery. So there were a lot of choices
along the way, and I basically just made sure I
was doing it for.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The right reasons and for me.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But I still think it's the coolest subsection of all
the different choices that I could have picked.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And I really enjoyed taking care of spine patients.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's so nice that you get to walk through life together.
I mean, that's such a bonus. You know, I'm one
of fourteen children, and we we we all love each
other all in the same text thread, and I know
what that feels like. But they're not all here. It's
got to be fun to be, you know, just to
have each other, just to lean on and just know
(09:00):
and have fun too, your leisure time things. So I
hope this this is a long, healthy run for you
here and nobody decides no, I want to be a
sharp a.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Guy, Paul, I hope so too. It's been fun being
together so far. So absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
If somebody's going to break up the band, that's going
to be Lauren, not me.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
She's always the troublemaker.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I could feel that all the way through. Well, it's
a thrill to meet you, and I appreciate you. Guys
give me a few minutes. So I hope I didn't
pull you away from important work down the street.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
The three doctor Bowden's Lauren, Stephanie and Allison, all at
U of l Health Orthopedic surgeons and good folks, and
we're so glad you fell in love with our community.
Thanks to that much better great to have you here.
Please come back and visit sometime.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Absolutely thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Would you mind taking a look at this hamstring? I'm
not gonna you get that all the time. We're back
in a minute on news radio. Wait forty w ain'h
a s
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