On the Sustainable Clinical Medicine Podcast we are capturing the stories of physicians who have made clinical medicine sustainable in their own lives, including their before and after stories. I will also interview coaches who are helping Physicians create sustainable clinical medicine for themselves.
Sustainable Clinical Medicine with The Charting Coach
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On the Sustainable Clinical Medicine Podcast we are capturing the stories of physicians who have made clinical medicine sustainable in their own lives, including their before and after stories. I will also interview coaches who are helping Physicians create sustainable clinical medicine for themselves.
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June 22, 2026
How to Stop Blaming Yourself as a Doctor: Pain, Guilt, and the Stories We Tell Episode 177
<p>When Dr. Maggie Kang's nine-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare, incurable autoimmune disease, she was the radiologist who first saw the images. What followed was not just the grief of a mother watching her child suffer. It was two years of silent, suffocating guilt built on a story that made no logical sense but felt completely true.</p> <p>In this episode, Dr. Kang talks about the difference between pain and suffering, why doctors are particularly vulnerable to the stories that keep them stuck, and what it actually takes to let those stories go. The insight she shares is one that applies far beyond rare disease diagnosis, and doctors who have ever blamed themselves for a bad outcome will recognize it immediately.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Episode Highlights</strong></p> <p>[01:00]: Dr. Kang describes the moment she first saw her daughter's images as a radiologist, and what the following five weeks in hospital looked like for their family.</p> <p>[06:00]: She had tried thinking her way through the guilt for two years before coaching surfaced a belief she had never once said out loud to another person.</p> <p>[11:00]: Dr. Kang explains why this particular belief was so hard to release, and how cultural background, professional identity, and motherhood all collided in ways she had not anticipated.</p> <p>[15:00]: The moment she stopped asking what had gone wrong and started asking a different kind of question entirely set off a chain of events that is still unfolding today.</p> <p>[25:00]: She draws a clear line between pain and suffering that reframes how doctors might think about everything from a difficult diagnosis to a bad clinical outcome.</p> <p>[31:00]: A lobster metaphor that her whole family now uses to talk about growth, uncertainty, and what it actually means to let go of a story that is no longer serving you.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Three Key Takeaways</strong></p> <p><strong>1. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is the story we add to it.</strong></p> <p>Dr. Kang makes a distinction that sounds simple and lands hard. Pain is the actual experience: a child who is sick, a patient outcome that did not go as hoped, a career that suddenly changes course. Suffering is the additional layer of blame and guilt that doctors quietly construct around that pain, often without ever examining it or saying it aloud. For doctors, who are trained to believe that good outcomes follow from doing everything right, this distinction is particularly important. When things go wrong despite their best efforts, the story they reach for is often the harshest one available.</p> <p><strong>2. The stories that keep doctors stuck rarely survive being questioned out loud.</strong></p> <p>Dr. Kang spent two years convinced she should have caught her daughter's diagnosis earlier, even though the pediatric presentation of the disease she knew was entirely different from what she had trained on. It was not logic that kept that belief in place. It was shame. Shame keeps stories in the dark, and stories in the dark grow. What coaching gave her was not an answer, but a question: are you sure? That single question, asked with genuine curiosity by someone else, was the beginning of everything that followed.</p> <p><strong>3. Letting go of a story means tolerating not having one.</strong></p> <p>Dr. Kang uses the lobster as her metaphor, and it is a good one. When a lobster grows, it has to shed its shell and endure a period of complete vulnerability before the new shell forms. The discomfort of that transition is not a sign something is wrong. It is the growth itself. For doctors, releasing a long-held belief about what they should have done or who they should be does not feel like freedom at first. It feels like losing ground. Dr. Kang describes that period honestly and what she found on the other side of it.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Guest Bio</strong></p> <p>Dr. Maggie Kang is a TEDx speaker and certified coach who works with mothers navigating life with a child's chronic or rare disease diagnosis. She runs the Lobster Lessons newsletter and advocates for the neuroimmune disease community alongside her daughter Nell at <a href="https://maggiekangmd.com" class="ProsemirrorEditor-link">maggiekangmd.com</a>.</p> <p>Would you like to view a transcript of this episode? <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/352asn6utvmtds09ifl41/Dr.-Maggie-Kang-Episode-177_finaltranscript.docx?rlkey=l75redavao5imz2s8m7khjpq0&st=utgl995v&dl=0" class="ProsemirrorEditor-link">Click Here</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Charting Champions is a premiere, lifetime access Physician only program that is helping Physicians get home with today's work done. All the proven tools, support and community you need to create time for your life outside of medicine.</p> <p>Learn more at <a href="https://www.chartingcoach.ca/" class="ProsemirrorEditor-link">https://www.chartingcoach.ca</a></p> <p>Enjoying this podcast? Please share it with someone who would benefit. Also, don’t forget to hit “follow” so you get all the new episodes as soon as they are released.</p> <p>Come hang out with me on Facebook or Instagram. Follow me @thechartingcoach to get more practical tools to help you create sustainable clinical medicine in your life.</p> <p>Questions? Comments? Want to share how this podcast has helped you? Shoot me an email at <a href="http://mailto:mail%3Aadmin@reachcareercoaching.ca/" class="ProsemirrorEditor-link">admin@reachcareercoaching.ca</a>. I would love to hear from you.</p>
June 15, 2026
Self-Compassion for Doctors: The Missing Piece in Burnout Prevention Episode 176
Psychiatrist and wellbeing coach Dr. Ira van der Steenstraten interviews host [Host Name] about how self-compassion, not just workload, prevents doctor burnout.
June 8, 2026
How Coaching Helped This Doctor Fall Back in Love With Medicine Episode 175
Host Dr. Heidi Baker shares her journey from burnout to renewed passion in medicine, revealing how coaching can save clinicians from leaving the profession.
173 total episodes available with 52 transcripts
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