BUFFALO, N.Y. — If you walk into the office of Dr. Breeann Wilson, you'll notice that everything is pink. It was the choice of the podiatric surgery specialist.
"Pink is a happy color. I love pink. I wear pink every day and my staff wears pink. There's pink literally in every aspect of this office and all of my patients comment on the color schemes that it just makes them feel comfortable," she said.
The Buffalo native is all about caring for the base of our bodies, the feet.
She wanted to be a doctor from the age of six.
"If you ask my sister, she's like, I never knew somebody who wanted to be a doctor since the age of six. So I always wanted to be a doctor. I love doing like the anatomy, cutting stuff open. I always wanted to do surgery, but I didn't want to deal with death. I didn't want to be on call a lot. And then when I had a family, I wanted to be able to have time with them. So I wanted to have a good work life balance," Dr. Wilson said.
She is passionate about making sure people care for their feet. "The feet are super important, and especially for people with diabetes, those are the people who really need to make sure they are getting their feet checked at least on a yearly basis."
Dr. Wilson the only black female podiatrist in Buffalo. While it is important to note, she said it makes her "sad if I'm being honest because we definitely have a need for good podiatric care. I have a lot of patients that feel more comfortable with women just because in general we're a little bit more empathetic, a little bit more compassionate, especially when it comes to some cosmetic features of our feet. Some people are very, very sensitive and and embarrassed by their feet. And so I feel like, you know, women give are a little bit more compassionate and understanding as far as wanting to have a certain aesthetic."
She added "when we don't have enough representation, even certain cultures are more comfortable with people in their in their same culture group. And I'm only one person and unfortunately I can't see everybody, which makes me sad because I wish more people would come into the field and and be there to help our community and taking care of their feet."
Dr. Wilson is from a family of goal-getters.
The City Honors School graduate is proud of her family, including her grandfather who was a Harlem Globetrotter, and he had one arm.
Her mom was a teacher and her dad a pharmacist.
"I try to be a good representation of the profession so that other little girls, no matter, their background, can look at me and say if I can do it, because certainly if I can do it, anybody else can do it," said Dr. Wilson.