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Conflict Resolution for Doctors: Why Conflict Is a Vital Sign, Not a Disease | Episode 188
Most doctors were never taught how to handle conflict. They were taught to avoid it, outlast it, or hand it to someone else. Dr. Lee Sharma is a gynecologist who completed a master's degree in conflict resolution in...
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Therapy for Doctors: Why You Do Not Have to Be in Crisis to Ask for Help | Episode 187
Most burnout conversations focus on systems, strategies, and workflow. And those things matter. But what happens when the inbox is clear, the charting is done, and something still feels wrong? Dr. Annia Raja is a...
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Curiosity in Medical Leadership: Why Asking Questions Outperforms Having Answers | Episode 186
Most doctors are trained to have answers. The higher the stakes, the more certainty is rewarded. But when those same doctors step into leadership roles, that certainty becomes the very thing that gets in their way....
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How to Design a Clinical Day That Works: Intentional Systems With Dr. Bertina Hooks | Episode 185
Dr. Bertina Hooks has been a hospitalist, a locums doctor, a private practice owner across three locations, a utilization management reviewer, a medical expert witness, and a physician coach. She built all of that...
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Why Better Patient Communication Takes Less Time, Not More With Dr. Chantal Lorio
Most doctors believe they are good communicators. Most of them are right. But there is a difference between compassion, doing everything in your power to help someone, and empathy, letting them know for one moment...
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Doctor Coaching From the Inside: What Happens When the System Invests in Its Own People | Episode 183
The data couldn't be ignored, and it was so shocking it stopped her in her tracks.
When burnout data came back showing 53% of providers in her institution were burned out, Dr. Susan MacLellan-Tobert did not wait for...
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What Medical Training Gets Wrong About Identity, Leadership, and Burnout With Dr. Nondumiso Makhunga-Stevenson
Medical training produces a particular kind of identity. Responsible, accountable, self-sufficient, always proving competence. Those traits are useful in the clinic. They are quietly destructive everywhere else.
Dr....
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You Were Trained to Hide Yourself. Here Is What That Is Costing You. Episode 181
There is a version of professionalism in medicine that looks like competence from the outside and feels like self-erasure from the inside. Dr. Kathleen Muldoon is an anthropologist who teaches in a medical school,...
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From Burnout to Thriving: What Women Doctors Need to Hear With Dr. Jeannie Lawrence Episode 180
Most doctors experiencing burnout look completely fine from the outside. They are professional, put together, and still showing up. On the inside, they have been quietly disconnecting from their own emotions, dreams,...
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How a GP Collapsed From Burnout and Found Her Way Back to Medicine Episode 179
Dr. Jenny Brockis was the first one in and the last one out. She was dictating notes into her phone on the drive home. Her patients were asking the receptionist whether she had cancer because of how much weight she...
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Doctor Burnout Prevention: Energy, Boundaries, and the PACE Method With Dr. Judy Wright Episode 178
Dr. Judy Wright burned out more than once before she started paying attention to what was actually driving it. As a family doctor who spent years staying two hours after her last patient to finish charting, she knows...
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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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