Direct Well-Being Podcast

Physicians often enter medicine as a calling, but what happens when two physicians build a life and family together? In this candid and vulnerable conversation, Dr. Anders Apgar sits down with his wife, Dr. Jacqueline Apgar, a practicing OBGYN of 22 years, to explore the real costs of dual-physician careers. They discuss how medicine dominated their home, the challenges of call schedules and exhau...

It hits early,  sometimes just two years out of residency, you’re no longer a trainee on paper, but the schedule still feels like one. Five shifts in a row. Nights. Weekends. Young kids at home. A mortgage and six-figure student loans that make you feel like a “negative millionaire.” In this first full episode of Direct Well-Being, Dr. Anders Apgar sits with Dr. Daren Girard, as they unpack the ea...

It rarely announces itself. It arrives quietly — somewhere between the charting, the call, the prior authorizations, and the exhaustion — the first time the thought becomes words: I can’t do this anymore. For most physicians it isn’t one moment. It’s death by a thousand cuts. A thousand clicks. The missed birthday seen three hours late.  The anniversary dinner canceled an hour in. The softball gam...