Heal the Burn is a podcast for doctors who want more from medicine. Hosted by Dr. Steven Seres, an Internal Medicine primary care physician, this show explores the realities of burnout with honesty, compassion, and curiosity. Through candid interviews and personal reflections, this show offers space for physicians to reconnect with meaning, navigate the pressures of clinical life, and rediscover what makes this work worth doing. It’s not about toxic positivity or bleak despair—it’s about the messy, human, hopeful middle.
Together we can Heal The Burn.
Heal The Burn episode 21: Should I Stay or Should I Grow?
Sometimes we just feel stuck. Stuck in a job, stuck in a role, stuck in a story about who we are supposed to be, or stuck in the belief that because we worked so hard to get here, we should probably just keep going.
In this episode of Heal the Burn, I talk with Dr. Elaine Schulte, Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Director of the CHAM Peer Mentoring Program, Director of the L.E.A.D. Program, and a board-certified physician coach.
We talk about coaching, mentoring, physician development, possibility, and the question: am I staying because this is still where I belong, or am I staying because I forgot I could grow?
21 Sept 2026
Heal The Burn episode 20: Can We Build A Better Day?
What would it take to build a better day in medical practice? Not a perfect day. Not an easy day. Just a day designed well enough that physicians and teams can care for patients without feeling consumed by the work around the work.
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Kevin Hopkins, a family physician at Cleveland Clinic and Physician Director of Health System Engagement at the American Medical Association. Through his work with AMA STEPS Forward, Kevin has become a national voice in physician well-being, team-based care, and ambulatory practice redesign. We talk about access, capacity, trust, agency, and what local physician leaders can still influence when they do not control the larger system. Maybe we cannot fix all of medicine by next week. But maybe we can make next week just a little more humane.
1 Sept 2026
The People Who Sustain Us
Burnout doesn’t stay at work.
We bring home the exhaustion, the frustration, and sometimes the short fuse. And the people closest to us can end up carrying the weight of a job they never signed up for.
But can that work in the other direction, too? Can healthy relationships actually protect us when work gets hard?
In this episode, I talk with Steven Cohn, PhD, LMFT, MBA, a relationship specialist who has spent more than 25 years working with couples. We explore the “crossover effect” of work stress, why feeling heard and understood matters, how couples can support each other without becoming responsible for fixing each other, and why even a strong relationship can’t make an unsustainable job sustainable.
Steven also gives us a wonderfully simple way to think about relationships: two people in their own boats, learning how to navigate the same pond.
Because maybe sustainability at work isn’t only about our relationship with work. Maybe it’s also about taking care of the people who keep us whole.
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