Ending Physician Overwhelm

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode I am speaking with Dr Chelsea Turgeon, author of the #1 Bestselling book, “Residency Drop Out,” and a Career and Burnout Coach for healthcare workers seeking fulfillment and happiness in their careers. Through pivoting to writing and coaching, Chelsea has been able to become a digital nomad, and speaks to us today from Equador.  To find out more about Chelsea an...

Send us Fan Mail We're going deep in this episode. When was the last time you felt like you belonged? For many of us in medicine, this can feel like a challenge, and there are clear reasons why we feel this way. We talk through ideas of belonging and fitting in, as described by Brené Brown in her wonderful book, The Gifts of Imperfection . To learn more about my upcoming program, where we dig...

Send us Fan Mail Join me today as I speak with my friend, Dr Tamara Beckford of UR Caring Docs and the Docs Who Care Podcast. She is a board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician, as well as a wife and mother, and she shares her story of being on the front lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic and facing her own mortality, and how she began her self-care journey. Today she has a thriving community for p...

Send us Fan Mail I am thrilled to be joined in this episode by Dr Sarah Smith, aka the Charting Coach. She is a Family Physician in rural Alberta Canada and CEO and Physician Coach in her program, Charting Champions. After years of struggling with charting backlog and an overflowing inbox, she shares her journey of developing systems to get through the clinical day with ease, and how she now bring...

Send us Fan Mail Trigger Warning: In this episode we talk about suicidal ideation and eating disorders. If these subjects are difficult for you to hear, please join us for a different episode. Today I am speaking with my special guest and friend, Dr Jillian Rigert, MD, DMD. Dr Rigert has completed training in Dentistry and Medicine, and is currently working as both a Postdoctoral Research Fellow i...

Send us Fan Mail March 30 marks National Doctor's Day (as well as National Something on a Stick Day!), and March 25-31 is National Physician's Week. These are generally occasions that are "celebrated" with swag (mugs, paperweights and scarves, oh my!), and/or pizza or doughnuts, perhaps a card or an email. And how many of us turn these gestures into weapons, resenting them as s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about how it isn't time that is the enemy (we all have the same 24 hours after all), but it's the number of things that we need/"should"/want to do with our time that is the problem. And when we carry this list with us, stuck in our heads, we endlessly "should" on ourselves, making it very difficult to relax during the actual...

Send us Fan Mail A recent article by Dr. Chelsea Turgeon in KevinMD highlighted learned helplessness as a major harmful side effect of our training. We were trained to tune out the needs of our bodies and minds during medical school and residency, and we get so good at tuning ourselves out that we keep doing it; often until we can't anymore. Check out the article here . Find Dr. Chelsea Turge...

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode, we dive into why so many Physicians start to feel that something is wrong with them. That because they feel emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, and can't relax, it's a sign that they are flawed in some significant way. We'll break down that line of thinking right now, and look at how we can start to make changes to feel better. Support the sho...

Send us Fan Mail We like to automatically blame our circumstances for our negative feelings. We imagine that we wouldn't have to feel angry, frustrated or overwhelmed if only our jobs were different, or the culture of medicine changed. We discount that our thoughts about the circumstances create the emotions, and when we do that, we give away our power to feel differently. Support the show To...

Send us Fan Mail It may seem obvious, but the Pandemic delivered some unseen "extras" in terms of challenges for Physicians. The politicization of masking for example. The pressure to convince fiercely skeptical people to get vaccinated. The increased risks to our own health and safety and that of our loved ones.  If you've been struggling, it makes total sense. But we can only move...