How loneliness, invisible labor, and the search for belonging shape life beyond the white coat.

A physician spouse can feel two things at once: enormous pride in the work their partner does and real ...

For November and December, I’m doing something different on The MedLife Support Podcast. Instead of bringing you only new interviews, I’m revisiting several conversations in which someone else invited...

The Addiction No One Sees: Physician Substance Use, Recovery & Physician Health Programs

Substance use disorder does not always look like professional collapse. A physician can still be seeing patien...

The Cost of Powering Through: Midlife Health, Hormones & Reclaiming Yourself

Women become exceptionally good at functioning.

We remember the appointments. We manage the calendar. We notice what the ...

When Women Physicians Carry Too Much: Burnout, Identity, and Career Redesign

There is a familiar explanation for burnout among women physicians: medicine is demanding, motherhood is demanding, and so...

The Other Side of Medicine: A Husband’s View of Marriage, Fatherhood & Physician Family Life

For decades, the image of the “physician spouse” has often been remarkably narrow: a woman married to a ma...

Rich, But Not Wealthy: Why Financial Independence Matters in Medicine

There is a particular kind of financial confusion that can happen in a medical family. From the outside, everything looks success...

TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE, LOSS OF AN ADULT CHILD

This episode includes discussion of suicide, mental illness, depression, suicidal ideation, and grief following the loss of an adult child.

The MedLi...

Medical culture has a long-standing message: keep going. Skip the meal. Finish the chart. Push through the exhaustion. Compartmentalize what happened with the last patient and walk smiling into the ne...

When medicine starts to feel unsustainable, the instinct is often to search for a big answer. Leave the job. Change specialties. Cut back. Move. Start over. Those options may be appropriate for some p...