Doctor Me First with Errin Weisman DO

When you are deep in the pit of burnout, the last thing you probably want to do is find creative ways to express yourself. However, when you are extremely stressed out, finding a creative outlet is imperative. Listen as Mary Adkins, a former attorney turned award-winning author and book coach, shares how you can move through burnout by focusing on your creative self care, even when life is life-in...

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I've done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from The Freedom Formula For Physicians Podcast. The life of a physician is difficult. Between medical school and residency...

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I've done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from The Surgeon Masters Podcast with Dr. Jeffrey Smith. Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life...

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I've done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from Curate Your Health with Dr. Heather Hammerstedt. Errin Weisman is here to discuss the wonderful topic of Self Compassi...

Believe it or not, you are capable of writing a book. If you have a book in your head, it can come to life on paper. And you don't have to do it alone. Jennifer Bright is a wonderful human being and a proud book doula for authors everywhere. Listen as she shares her story and how you take steps today to get your book out of your head and into the world.   "Publishing a book is unlike almost any ot...

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I've done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from The Prosperous Doc with Shane Tenny. Burnout, physician suicide, and other mental illnesses are issues the medical com...

My friend Dr. Laura Suttin is a family physician down in San Antonio, TX. She is wearing all the hats as a business consultant, author, coach, and MD. She helps other physicians tell their stories and find their voice after they have been chewed up by the culture of the medical system. Female physicians often find themselves in situations of powerlessness in their work. They do not have the power...

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I've done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from the Create an Unstoppable Life Podcast with Dr. Dena George. It's a joy to celebrate 100 episodes with a favorite frie...

Dr. Amna Shabbir was a previous podcast listener and member of the Physician's Coaching Alliance. In the depths of burnout, she stumbled across Dr. Me First and found that she wasn't alone in her physician burnout. After listening for over a year throughout her toughest times, she finally reached out to me, and the rest has been history.  Originally from Pakistan, Dr. Amna made her journey to the...

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I've done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from the Mom After Hours Podcast with Brandi Wiatrak. Every mom has likely felt as though she can't take on one.more.damn.t...

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I've done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from the Fried. The Burnout Podcast with Cait Donovan. Errin Weisman, D.O. was taught, like all doctors to be a robot, a su...

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I've done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from the It's Not Just You podcast with Dr. Kara Pepper How do you tell the difference between burnout and other forms of "...

Dr. Maggie is a Radiologist and a mom whose daughter was diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica (NMO) at age nine. The moment of terror of seeing the brain MRI of her daughter displaying an inflammatory episode of NMO put her in the downward spiral of grief that so many experience when faced with such a diagnosis. While watching her child struggle with the most innate parts of her brain functions, Dr...

Not everyone is brave enough to start a practice straight out of residency, much less to do so in Fairbanks, Alaska. But that didn't stop Dr. Kara Hartl. She opened her practice with the goal of raising the bar and maintaining the Ivory Tower concept of practicing medicine and providing the highest standard of care to her patients. By providing top-notch medicine, her practice evolved into a multi...

When we think of trucking, Yoga isn't usually one of the first things that comes to mind. Hope Zvara is working to change that, one trucker at a time! Hope spent 20 years teaching yoga and functional movement to those who were in pain, and after meeting the right person at the right time, she pivoted into Mother Trucker Yoga, helping truck drivers treat their daily pains and maintain their health...

Growing up as a lover of science, Dr. Kathy Zhang found herself on the road to medical school as a young adult. Starting her career as a hospitalist for four years, she quickly realized that the expedited culture of the patient experience was not how she envisioned serving her patients as a young girl.  While deep in the throws of burnout as a hospitalist, Kathy found her way into a fellowship tha...

When we are pushed into burnout by a career in healthcare that demands more than we are physically able to continue providing, we have to find our own way out. There is no specific formula for getting you out of burnout because the answer varies from person to person. I spoke with Dr. Laurie Boge who shared her experience with burnout and how she found her way out through following what was in ali...

It's no secret that the main driving force behind the burnout we face as healthcare providers comes directly at the hands of the broken healthcare system. Shifting away from proper patient care and leaning heavily on tasks, lists, and analytics, the system sets us up for failure and puts us right on the path to feeling burned out, helpless, and devoid of the passion that brought us to healthcare i...

If there is anything we know as physicians, it is that relationships are hard . Our practices and patients demand so much of our mental space and processing abilities that we often struggle to find the time and the energy to connect and communicate with our partners in the way they need us to. The connection we share with our partners is one of the most critical components of our ability to stay g...

Neurodiversity is something I really love talking about because it is a topic that we all too often misinterpret for what it really is. Neurodivergent brains operate in different ways and process information differently, meaning that a one-size-fits-all approach isn't best suited to those of us who are neurodivergent.  The average frameworks for building habits and achieving goals don't really wor...

We're back for round two with Dr. Melissa Hankins this week! We spent last week's episode talking about the trauma that we face as physicians and how it develops for many of us in residency at the hand of our attending physicians. This week, Dr. Hankins is cluing us into a trauma processing model called EFT tapping (Emotional Freedom Techniques). EFT Tapping is a unique way to bring you back into...

Trauma is something that is present in all walks of life in all professions. However, one way that trauma impacts us differently as physicians is that we are taught that it is a normal part of our work as a physician and we are to stuff it down and just keep going. The job itself as a physician is riddled with trauma with the amount of sickness, pain, and death that we face. But, a different flavo...

Holy shit! We've made it to 400 episodes. I honestly cannot believe it. I started this podcast to have fun, share my story, share the stories of other physicians, and help raise a voice against the failures of the medical industry in driving so many amazing physicians toward burnout. What I didn't expect to find was my own healing. I didn't realize that I'd build an amazing community of physicians...

Addiction comes in all flavors my friends, whether it's drugs, alcohol, or working, the recovery that comes alongside addiction is the same regardless of the drug of choice. One thing that I feel can't be mentioned enough is that recovery never actually ends. For those of us who find ourselves struggling with addiction, we will never be out of recovery. We will always be in some sort of recovery f...

We've been talking a lot about money over here on Doctor Me First lately. If you haven't caught some of those episodes, I encourage you to check out our Money Series and get some financial facts right in your life! Money is one of those tricky things that determines freedom for so many of us. And it's not always having money that provides freedom, but how we use the money that we do have to achiev...