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Sustainable Clinical Medicine with The Charting Coach

Sustainable Clinical Medicine with The Charting Coach

Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Smith

On the Sustainable Clinical Medicine Podcast we are capturing the stories of physicians who have made clinical medicine sustainable in their own lives, including their before and after stories.  I will also interview...

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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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Reducing Clinician Burnout: Virtual Scribes, EMR Optimization, and Smarter Staffing with Lori Runion Episode 165

If your EMR feels like it’s adding to your workload instead of reducing it, this episode will feel very familiar. In this conversation, Sarah Smith sits down with healthcare IT and analytics consultant Lori Runion to...
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Healing Through Trauma-Informed Practices Supporting Doctors and Clinicians with Dr. Sadie Elisseou Episode 164

Welcome to another episode of the Sustainable Clinical Medicine Podcast! Dr. Sadie Elisseou, a primary care physician in the US VA system in Boston, Harvard and Boston University educator, and trauma-informed care...
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New Attending Survival: Uncertainty, Self-Trust, and the Hidden Curriculum with Dr. Karen Leitner Episode 163

Welcome to another episode of the Sustainable Clinical Medicine Podcast! The host and physician coach Dr. Karen Leitner discuss why the transition to new attending is often harder than training, marked by impostor...
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Bite-Sized Wellbeing for Burned-Out Healthcare Workers with Dr. Bryan Sexton on Burnout Metrics & Micro-Interventions Episode 162

Welcome to another episode of the Sustainable Clinical Medicine Podcast! Psychologist and psychometrician Dr. Bryan Sexton, Chief Wellness Officer at Duke Health Integrated Practice, discusses how his early...
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The Doctor's Path: Transformations and Triumphs of Medicine, Identity, and Resilience: Insights from Dr. Dhaval Desai Episode 161

Welcome to another episode of the Sustainable Clinical Medicine Podcast! Dr. Dhaval Desai, an Atlanta-based internal medicine–pediatrics physician and former hospitalist director, shares his path from studying...
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