
Can Doctors Ever Stop Being Doctors?
From progressive rock to retirement, a physician reflects on five decades in medicine and why the profession still dominates his conversations.

From progressive rock to retirement, a physician reflects on five decades in medicine and why the profession still dominates his conversations.

From Nunavut to Northern Ontario, a locum psychiatrist discovers what temporary medicine teaches about trust, belonging, and the limits of expertise.

Physician compensation reality is more complex than public perception. A look at the gap between how doctors are viewed financially and how institutions actually treat them.

Caring for aging parents while raising a family can leave you wondering what’s wrong with you. A psychiatrist suggests asking a different question.

One object can hold an entire story. #ONEOBJECT invites healthcare professionals to share an object that reveals something about their work, training, lives, and the experiences that shaped them.
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Stories from the world of healthcare, to make you laugh, cry, and think.
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Small moves from real clinicians that can change the way you work.
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Where healthcare, influence, reputation, and reality collide online.

Caring for aging parents while raising a family can leave you wondering what’s wrong with you. A psychiatrist suggests asking a different question.

Dr. Lara Barbir, Psy.D. specializes in trauma-informed insights on nervous system regulation, reparenting, and emotional security to help adults, parents, and clinicians move from insight to embodied change.

The Dusty Muffins™ podcast: three menopause specialists sharing real talk, science, and stories about perimenopause, menopause, and midlife—educating, empowering, and laughing along the way.

Owen Scott Muir, MD is the most engaging speaker in mental health.

From progressive rock to retirement, a physician reflects on five decades in medicine and why the profession still dominates his conversations.

From Nunavut to Northern Ontario, a locum psychiatrist discovers what temporary medicine teaches about trust, belonging, and the limits of expertise.

Physician compensation reality is more complex than public perception. A look at the gap between how doctors are viewed financially and how institutions actually treat them.

An insurance company denied a claim over a code never used, then recommended the code already submitted. Ninety minutes of healthcare’s version of Who’s on First? reveals the invisible work of navigating the system.

Sonal KamalIa, MD lectures about the importance of indulging in our hobbies/ creative projects for self care and strategies to help you do that in your busy lives.

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Doctor Do, Doctor Don’t is a straight‑talking guide that helps medical students and residents navigate pay, practice models, and career pitfalls so they can protect their autonomy and design a medical career on purpose instead of by default.

Helping physicians explore and land their fulfilling career in pharma/biotech.

A startup wanted a physician advisor.. but not a paid one. Why are doctors still expected to give away expertise that every other profession charges for?

This podcast highlights the stories of independent doctors.

Cesar Limjoco, MD asks whether understanding revenue, reimbursement, and practice economics make you a better physician, and also lays out the case for the answer being yes.

Dr. Misra argues that “Can I pick your brain?” is often code for “can I invoice your expertise at zero dollars?”

Emergency physician Dr. Noah Kaufman shares why he left traditional ER medicine to build a direct-pay acute care practice—and what physicians should know before going independent.

Physicians: escape training’s compliance trap. Shift mindset from passenger to driver. Launch/scale private practice with O.W.N.R. roadmap + 90-day test drive. Dr. Grace Torres-Hodges, DPM, MBA will show you how.

Plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Hall shares two patient-agreement strategies his private practice uses to navigate online reviews, HIPAA, disputes, and risk.

Silvana Fischman DDS (Intl), MHA, CRC teaches how you document to care for patients, but your charts also drive revenue, shape contracts, and determine what your practice is worth. She’ll show you how.

Stop guessing how to start expert witness work. Learn from expert Amy G. Fogelman, MD the proven pathways to land your first case and build a credible, lucrative side business.

Rebecca Pickens delivers a craft-focused lecture explores how to build stories with momentum, tension, and consequence that hold together structurally and keep readers emotionally invested.

What is the purpose of a publisher when authors are asked to do the marketing and bring a ready-made audience.. and the money?

One object can hold an entire story. Pick yours, tell us why it matters, and join the #ONEOBJECT healthcare video campaign.

Patients are bringing months of wearable data into the exam room. The challenge now is figuring out which numbers can actually change their care.

Ambient AI can already write a physician’s note. The more interesting question is whether AI could eventually make some of medicine’s workflows unnecessary.

This community is for doctors who want to explore what others are doing and effectively network with others, in a structured setting.

When a “trusted medical source” refuses to reveal how its AI works, one physician’s comic interrogation becomes a sharp warning about transparency, accountability, and trust in the age of algorithmic medicine.

What Really Matters explains why and how we are meant to engage with others and improve their lives.

Helen Tanner MPH shares a reckoning with what it actually takes to create the life and career you want by building the conditions that make opportunity inevitable.

Looking for podcast guests to share their experiences with medical career transitions.

Cesar M Limjoco, MD discusses the importance of letting go of hatred as a crucial step towards healing, personal growth, and fostering healthier relationships, despite the accompanying pain and challenge of facing underlying emotional wounds.

When a physician quits after her father dies, her departure raises a larger question about what medicine could do differently to help doctors stay.

Is burnout too broad a word for physician distress? A look at how choice, capability, connection, and contribution may better explain what physicians have lost.

Healthcare tells physicians to become more resilient. But what if bouncing back is the wrong goal? One physician argues for empathy, mastery, humility, and growth instead.

Medicine can become so intertwined with identity that physicians forget who they are outside it. What parts of your life belong entirely to you?

I always thought I wanted to become a doctor, an anonymous author shares, but I started to question whether it was the right path as I got older.

An autoethnographic account of Dr. Josette Pelatan’s decade-long struggle with relapsing MOGAD, revealing how systemic dismissal forced her to become her own medical expert, cross borders for care, and ultimately secure diagnosis through research grounded in her own lived body.

An anonymous patient shares the emotional disorientation of losing their sense of self inside the medical system, revealing what clinicians rarely see beneath the surface of routine care.

A patient’s first-person account of trying, and failing, to pay a medical bill, revealing how healthcare billing systems turn responsibility into frustration and nonpayment into a structural problem.
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The Patient Asked for a Prescription. The Doctor Heard a Bigger Question.
Patients increasingly arrive asking for a specific pill, test or referral. What happens when what they request differs from what their physician believes they need?
The Internet May Have Finally Found a Use for Expertise
AI can generate endless medical content. A change at X raises a more interesting question: could genuine physician expertise become valuable online again?
Medical Guidance is Becoming Monetized Infrastructure
Affiliate marketing is reshaping healthcare content, as commissions influence which treatment options readers see, how they are ranked, and where they appear.