Episode 45: Doctoring Is Creative Work (Even If Your EHR Disagrees)

In this episode of Chart Less, Live More, Dr. Junaid tackles the specific kind of exhaustion that turns great clinicians into “sentient order sets,” still caring, still performing, but feeling emotionally flat. Borrowing a few surprisingly useful ideas from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic, he reframes doctoring as creative work and draws a hard line between doing the work and letting fear run the whole show. You will leave with a 30-second daily experiment to rebuild meaning, one clinical moment at a time, plus a reminder that burnout is not a character flaw; it is often an accurate response to an overloaded system.