A Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine

What happens when a society forgets what public health is for? In today's episode, MIT professor Thomas Levenson shares ideas from A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines, a timely history of vaccine skepticism and the fears, m ...  Show more

What does it actually mean to get ahead — and stay sane doing it? On Monday's episode, career coach Emily Durham (a.k.a. Emily the Recruiter, with 3 million+ followers across social media) cuts through the noise with her new book Clock In: No-BS Advice for Getting Ahead in Your C ...  Show more

This doctor says she committed a fatal mistake with a patient, leading her to a disturbing diagnosis: the medical field pushes for professional burnout. She unveils a powerful perspective on how doctors must deepen their self-awareness. Season 2 of Sincerely, X is available exclu ...  Show more

We sit down with Dr. Jessi Gold, a psychiatrist and Chief Wellness Officer for the University of Tennessee system. We dive into the challenges of managing wellness for over 80,000 students and faculty across five campuses, the complexities of test anxiety in medical education, an ...  Show more

We know that healthcare workers are burned out and exhausted. Provider mental health is a huge issue… but are the institutions listening?  This week on It’s OK, burnout expert Dr. Jessi Gold talks to us about (obviously) burnout, but also ways HCW* can start to change the workpla ...  Show more

This episode considers what happens when the rigors of training and the pursuit of excellence in in medicine collide with the mental health needs of trainees.

A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400698.