Ending Physician Overwhelm
I'm Megan Melo, board-certified Family and Obesity Medicine Physician and Physician Coach. In this podcast we talk about the many ways that burnout shows up in our lives, and what we can do about it. I'm on a mission to help Physicians take steps towards to heal burnout by unlearning the habits of perfectionism, people-pleasing and limiting beliefs so that we can lead healthier, happier lives. The healthcare system is broken; but you don't have to wait until it's fixed to feel better. I'm here to help. Thank you for tuning in! Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review. Until next time, take care. Connect with me: Website: www.healthierforgood.com Instagram: @MeganMeloMD Email: megan@healthierforgood.com Bookshop.org Book Shop: https://bookshop.org/shop/meganmelo
Episodes
There is a decision you are not making. It finds you in the car on the way to work. It finds you after a hard clinic day. It finds you at 11pm when you are trying to fall asleep. And every day you tell yourself you will just wait and see.
Here is what I want you to know: waiting is not free. Every day you spend not deciding is a day you hand over mental bandwidth and emotional energy to a question that never ...
There is no algorithm for being everything to everyone. There is no version of you that can close every note, remember every modifier, sort every piece of garbage correctly, and never make anyone unhappy. And yet somehow we keep walking around asking ourselves how we're supposed to do it all, like the failure is ours instead of the expectation being the problem.
This week I want to talk about a question I hear consta...
Tell me a place in your life that is not home and not work where you feel fully like yourself. And no, sitting in your car in the driveway does not count.
This week we are talking about the idea of a third place, a concept that is part physical space and part something you do, a hobby or an activity that lets you show up as a full human being instead of Dr. So and So. Think the coffee shop from Friends. Not home, not...
I spent 48 hours trying to get home from a trip to see my mother in law. A canceled flight, a rerouted city that turned out to be smack in the middle of World Cup weekend, a storm system, and a whole lot of nothing I could control. And somehow, it turned into one of the clearest lessons on values I have had in a long time.
Here is the thing. Most of us do not think about our values until something falls apart. We spe...
Quick: without overthinking it, what area of your life could use some more attention right now? If your answer was "all of it," or if you just went completely blank, this episode is exactly for you.
In this episode, we work through the five areas where I see physicians struggling most. Not in some abstract, general-public kind of way, but in the specific, trained-out-of-us, system-conditioned ways that make these par...
Raise your hand if you've hit December and suddenly realized your CME credits are nowhere close to where they need to be. Yeah. Me too. That particular flavor of end-of-year panic is incredibly common, and it doesn't have to keep happening.
In this episode, we dig into the unsexy but necessary work of getting a handle on your CME, your board certifications, and all the credentialing requirements that somehow always f...
You are halfway through 2026 and I have a feeling you have not stopped once to notice what you have actually done.
That is exactly what this episode is for. Not a performance review, not a goal-setting hustle session, just a real pause to look at where you are, what you want for the rest of this year, and what is honestly getting in the way of you having it. We are going to do a little of the work that good coaches d...
When was the last time you actually saw your own doctor? If you just cringed a little, you are exactly who this episode is for.
I take care of a lot of physicians in my practice, and I have heard every version of the story: self-prescribed thyroid meds, skipped physicals, and a very impressive collection of coping strategies that are working just well enough to keep going. I get it because I live it too. But there ar...
(Trigger Warning: This episode does briefly reference physician suicide)
Have you ever looked up and realized you've slid back into a pattern you thought you'd left behind, and immediately wondered what is wrong with you? That moment of recognition, the one where you feel like you've undone all your progress, is exactly what we're digging into today.
One of my clients came to a session recently carrying something heav...
How many times have you apologized today? Not for something you actually did wrong. Just for existing, taking up space, having needs, being human?
This episode is about that. We're going through 10 specific things that women physicians have been socialized to apologize for, and we are done. Not because we're going to become difficult or stop caring, but because the apologizing is costing us, and it's not serving anyo...
You did the hard part last week. You sat with the feelings, let the thoughts tumble out, and didn't immediately sprint toward a job board. Good. Now we figure out what's actually next.
Part 2 is where we get practical, but not in the way medicine trained us to be practical. We're not just dusting off the CV and hitting LinkedIn. We're doing something harder and more useful: getting clear on what we actually want befo...
Raise your hand if you or someone you know has been laid off. Not fired. Laid off. It's happening more and more, and if you've been watching what's going on in healthcare right now, it probably doesn't surprise you. What might surprise you is how complicated it feels, even when part of you is relieved.
In this episode, we dig into something that doesn't get talked about enough: the emotional experience of being let g...
Let's talk about the hassle factor, and why that term doesn't even begin to cover what we're actually dealing with.
I'm coming into this episode a little fired up, and honestly, that's the point. In the last two weeks, I've been flooded with prior authorization requests for patients on GLP-1 medications. Patients who already have approval. Patients we know don't have coverage and have been paying cash. Patients whose...
Whole. Capable. Perfect. Just as you are.
Go ahead and sit with that for a second. Because if you're anything like most of us in medicine, those three words probably don't come naturally when you think about yourself. We weren't trained that way. We were trained to find what's wrong, what's missing, what needs to be corrected. And that lens? It doesn't always stay at work.
In this episode, we're trying something on to...
You pull into the driveway after a full day. Patients, staff, meetings, inbox, all of it. You open the door and immediately there are more people who need something from you. And you have nothing left.
If you have ever sat in your car in the driveway just a little longer than you needed to, you are not broken. You are not someone who doesn't love the people waiting for you inside. You are someone who has been on stag...
Have you ever had something completely figured out — only to find yourself right back at square one a little while later? That's not failure. That's life moving through seasons. And today, we're going to talk about how to navigate those transitions with a lot more grace and a lot less self-judgment.
I open this episode sharing a conversation I had with Sarah Smith, the Charting Champion Coach, someone who...
What if one sentence could pull you out of a spiral? What if a five-second pause could change the entire tone of your day?
In this episode, I'm sharing three simple tools I actually use — the ones that have quietly transformed how I move through hard moments, difficult patients, chaotic travel, and the everyday grind of being a physician. No fluff. No toxic positivity. Just practical, repeatable ways to speak t...
You know that feeling when you're in the middle of something completely outside your comfort zone and you realize — wait, I'm actually handling this? That's exactly where I'm recording from today: a hotel room in Osaka, Japan, chaperoning my son's eighth-grade school trip with a group of middle schoolers, their parents, and approximately infinite drama.
And instead of talking about the middle school gossip (tho...
Has your AI scribe ever produced garbage notes for days on end? Has Epic ever crashed mid-clinic and sent you into a spiral? And did a little voice in your head whisper, "Maybe I shouldn't have been relying on that in the first place"?
Yeah. We need to talk about that voice.
In this episode, we're getting honest about our relationship with the tools we use — technology, AI scribes, in-person scribes, and the sys...
Let's be honest — have you ever fantasized about calling in sick? Not because you're actually sick, but because it feels like the only way to justify taking a break? Maybe you picture finally cleaning out that closet, taking a nap in the middle of the day, or just... breathing. If that fantasy has ever crossed your mind, this episode is for you.
Because here's the thing: most of us are terrible at sick days &md...
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