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Years ago, an anesthesiologist pulled a struggling medical student aside and told her to look at which doctors were happy and which ones were switching out of their specialty.

That advice changed Dr. Allison Wells's career – twice. She made partner in a big anesthesia group, and then, she walked away from it and stepped into locum tenens.

Maybe you're living the life she left. Call nights you barely remember. Vacation you have to bargain for a year ahead. A paycheck that swings with whatever an insurance company decides this month. While you still love medicine, it's everything built around it that's wearing you down.

So is locum tenens worth it, or is it just another trap? Dr. Wells found a way out that didn't mean moving across the country or leaving medicine. Hear what she found, and what nobody warned her about, in the full episode.

Links for Guest

Email: md@wellsmedicine.com

Website: Wells Medicine

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I cried over a cupcake GIF this morning.

You see, my youngest turned eighteen today.

I was in bed, drinking my coffee, phone in hand, scrolling through Happy Birthday GIFs. I picked a cupcake with one flickering candle and rainbow sprinkles cascading onto the table. The words simply said, "Happy birthday to you." It felt so inadequate. But she's away at college, in class, and I wanted her to hear from me early in the day. So I sent it.

So why the tears? Some of it was grief. But the real cause, I think, was relief. For twenty years I've pushed down one thought: what if something happens to my husband and me before our kids are grown? This morning, I got to set it down.

If you carry what-if thoughts as a physician mom, this episode is about saying yours out loud.

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You probably didn't hit a breaking point all at once. It was a hundred small hits that added up before you even noticed.

Maybe it was the drive home you don't fully remember, or the question your kid had to ask twice because you didn't catch it the first time.

My guest, Rhonda Crowe, gets that better than most. She's spent twenty years in healthcare leadership, and these days she coaches physicians, residents, and even entire hospitals through exactly this kind of depletion. She's watched brilliant, compassionate doctors get pushed to the edge by a system that expects them to have all the answers and yet hands them half the tools to get there.

In this episode, Rhonda tells you exactly what she says to a physician mom who shows up at her door completely depleted. Press play to hear the real answer, not the polished one.

Links for Guest:

Website: mymdcoaches.com

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She missed dinner again. Not for an emergency, or a last minute add-on patient. For a spreadsheet, at a desk she'd meant to leave an hour ago.

That's a client of mine, four months into a contract job that was supposed to be extra.

Not because she was careless. Because every reason she said yes to was a good one, until they added up to missing dinner and staying long after everyone else had gone home, telling herself just this once, every single time

Maybe yours isn't a contract job. Maybe it's the extra call shift, the committee that "only" meets monthly, the side work that was supposed to stay small. If you've wondered how to stop overcommitting as a physician mom, stay with me.

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People trained to save lives are often the last ones to ask for help saving their own. When one of us is struggling with addiction or mental health, it touches our patients, our teams, and our organizations too.

Today I'm joined by Kristin Waite-Labott, a registered nurse, recovery coach, and founder of the Wisconsin Peer Alliance for Nurses. Kristin has lived through addiction and recovery herself, and built her career around helping healthcare workers find their way back.

In this conversation, she offers real, practical solutions at every level: how to recognize the warning signs of addiction in a coworker, what to actually say to them, and how organizations can build a culture where asking for help is a strength instead of a career risk.

What she shares next may be hard to hear, and hard to forget.

Links for Kristin:

• Email: wispan2021@gmail.com
• Website: wipeeralliance.org (contact form goes directly to Kristin)

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Last summer it was one kid leaving for college. This summer, it's both — in the same week.

Every morning I get my dog food and water in this one corner by my back door, where the shoes pile up every day without me even noticing. Mine. My daughter's. My son's, dirty from running outside. By next week, only mine will be there.

I've done goodbye before. I've never had an empty house.

Maybe yours isn't a college send-off. Maybe it's a job that ended, a marriage that changed shape, or a version of yourself you had to leave behind without much warning. Wherever you are, if something in your life is closing a chapter, this one's for you.

This is about life transition as a doctor mom — and who you get to be on the other side of it.

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Can stress actually cause gum disease?

Today I'm joined by Dr. Rana Al-Rasheed, an integrative dentist, UCLA School of Dentistry professor, and founder of Heal the Healer, a program for burned-out healthcare professionals.

Before she built that program, she needed it herself. Rana looked healthy on paper: happy marriage, healthy kids, a career she'd worked hard for. Then her own body sent her a wake-up call she couldn't ignore, and she realized she wasn't sick, but she wasn't healthy either.

It's a feeling a lot of physician moms know well – and your mouth may be the first place it shows up. What do your gums have to do with your heart, your brain, even diabetes? And what's the smallest habit that could turn it around?

If you've ever felt like you're pouring from an empty cup, this one's for you.

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Dr. Elissa Gartenberg trained at Mayo Clinic. Now, the resume line everyone expects to hear next: insurance-based practice, packed schedule, burnout by forty. Rather than build the career she was handed, she built a concierge practice around the medicine she actually believes in. Bold. Or maybe just honest.

Then motherhood didn't go the way she'd planned. You know that feeling, when the life you pictured rewrites itself without asking permission? She found her way forward anyway, through foster care, and later, adoption of her son.

We talk about building a career on your own terms, what fostering really feels like day to day, and what it takes to keep moving toward the life you want, even when it looks nothing like the one you first imagined.

Here's my conversation with Dr. Gartenberg.

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This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and isn’t a substitute for medical advice or care. I’m a board-certified physician, but this content isn’t connected to my clinical practice, and no doctor-patient relationship is formed here. Please always talk to your own health professional about any mental or physical health concerns. And as always, take what helps and leave the rest. Please see InspiredMomMDs.com for full legal disclaimer.

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