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How to Stop Blaming Yourself as a Doctor: Pain, Guilt, and the Stories We Tell Episode 177
When Dr. Maggie Kang's nine-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare, incurable autoimmune disease, she was the radiologist who first saw the images. What followed was not just the grief of a mother watching her...
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Self-Compassion for Doctors: The Missing Piece in Burnout Prevention Episode 176
The traits that make someone a great doctor, caring deeply, holding high standards, never switching off, are the same traits quietly driving burnout in medicine.
Dr. Ira van der Steenstraten has spent over a decade...
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How Coaching Helped This Doctor Fall Back in Love With Medicine Episode 175
Dr. Heidi Baker has been a pediatrician, an emergency medicine doctor, a helicopter retrieval medic, and a coach.
That kind of career range does not happen by accident. It happens when someone keeps hitting walls and...
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You Are Not as Stuck as You Feel. The Truth About Telemedicine Episode 174 Dr. Suneer Chander
What if you could replace your hospital income, work 25 hours a week, take three week vacations without asking permission, and still practice medicine you are proud of?
Three physicians who made the leap to full...
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You Do Not Have to Choose Between Medicine and the Life You Actually Want Episode 173
What if the thing you want most is actually the solution, not the problem? Dr. Kristine Goins was a full time academic psychiatrist, burnt out, physically unwell, and working across nine clinics with five different...
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Doctor Burnout Recovery: What Medicine Never Taught Us Episode 172
What happens when a doctor becomes the patient and discovers that everything she thought she knew about recovery was only half the picture?
Dr. Olivia Ong was a second-year rehabilitation registrar when a car struck...
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Episode 171: Stop Saying Yes to Everything. Finding Purpose and Sustainability in Medicine with Dr. Santina Wheat
Are you saying yes to everything and wondering why you have no joy left? Dr. Santina Wheat, family physician, program director, and wellness coach, has lived that story and found her way through it. She shares what...
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Every Time a Doctor Shares Their Story, Another Doctor Feels Less Alone with Kim Downey Episode 170
What does it take for a patient to become one of the most passionate advocates for physician wellbeing? For Kim Downey, it was losing her beloved radiologist to suicide after years of navigating her own complex cancer...
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Why You Can't Say No And What It's Costing You with Dr. Rachel Morris Episode 169
Are you drowning in responsibility you never actually agreed to take on? Dr. Rachel Morris, former GP and founder of You Are Not a Frog, has spent years helping doctors and healthcare professionals break out of what...
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She Brought Musicians Into the Operating Theater. Here's What Happened. Episode 168
What if the biggest threat to patient safety in your hospital isn't clinical error, but it's how your team treats each other?
Professor Catherine Crock, AM, hematologist at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne,...
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Toxic Leadership in Healthcare: Know It, Name It, Escape It Episode 167
Toxic leadership in healthcare is more widespread than the profession likes to acknowledge, and its effects on doctors and clinical teams go well beyond a difficult work environment. Organizational psychologist Dr....
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Why Coaching Is Missing in Healthcare with Dr. Emlet Episode 166
Burnout isn’t just about working too much, it’s about working in a system that quietly expects more than is sustainable.In this episode on reducing clinician burnout, Dr. Lillian Emlet shares what she’s seen from...
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