Purposeful MD Podcast

About Purposeful MD Podcast

Clinician turnover costs health systems $500,000 to $1 million per departure. Most organizations are managing the symptoms. This show diagnoses the structural conditions behind them. Designing Healthcare That Cares is hosted by Dr. Laura Suttin, a board-certified family physician, former healthcare executive, and organizational consultant who works with health system leaders to fix the structural conditions driving clinician attrition. Each episode gives healthcare executives a clearer view of the organizational design problems that produce turnover, and what it actually takes to correct them. Guests are clinician leaders, health system executives, and organizational experts whose experience translates directly to the boardroom. If you lead a health system, a medical group, or a clinical division, and you are tired of watching good clinicians leave, this show is for you.

Publisher

Doctor Podcast Network, Dr. Laura Suttin

Category

business · health & fitness · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jan 2024

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

14 of 74 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From Pediatric Surgeon to Physician Executive: Why Leadership Development Matters | Ep73

   Dr. Laura Suttin interviews Dr. Li Ern Chen about why leadership development is crucial for physicians to enhance healthcare teams and patient outcomes.

2. 

   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Mental Health Leadership: Building Stronger Clinicians Through Reflective Training with Megan Fredrick | Ep72

   Dr. Laura Suttin interviews behavioral health leader Megan Fredrick about how Reflective Training builds confident, compassionate clinicians and improves healthcare retention.

3. 

   21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Business of Medicine: Why Physician Leadership and Financial Fluency Matter | Ep71

   Dr. Laura Suttin interviews Dr. Erica Urquhart about physician leadership and financial fluency's crucial role in the business of medicine and healthcare sustainability.

Inside a recent episode

From Pediatric Surgeon to Physician Executive: Why Leadership Development Matters | Ep73

Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So I was a practicing full-time pediatric surgeon, you know, academic at UT Southwestern. And my research was focused on care standardization through building clinical pathways in EPIC. And what I realized very quickly was that I had the ability to take care of the people who take care of the people through the work that I was doing. And while it was under the guise of research at the time, because I was an academic surgeon, It was really hospital informatics. It was operations. It was IT. And it was running multidisciplinary teams, which I had no idea how much I enjoyed until I actually did it. […]

Who has been a guest on Purposeful MD Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Li Ern Chen
• Megan Fredrick
• Erica Urquhart
• Marschall Runge
• Dr Terry Adirim

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Books guests

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