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...

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...

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...

Physician families are accustomed to handling difficult things. Medicine demands long hours, high-stakes decision-making, constant responsibility, and an extraordinary capacity to care for others unde...

Inside the AMA Alliance: Educate. Advocate. Connect.

What exactly does the AMA Alliance offer physician families today?

Some families have been part of the Alliance for decades. Others may recogni...

When Money Can’t Replace Time: Raising Grounded Kids in Physician Families

There is an uncomfortable contradiction inside many physician households.

Parents spend years sacrificing to create stabili...

You can deeply love your spouse and still miss feeling close to them.

For many physician couples, that realization arrives quietly.

There is no major conflict. No dramatic argument. No obvious crisi...