Episode 71: Listening to Yourself and the Sunday Scaries

In this episode, Dr. Junaid explores the quiet distress signals that physicians and APPs have been trained to override and why ignoring them has become second nature. He distinguishes between signals pointing to fixable problems within your current practice and those hinting at something deeper, affirming that leaving medicine is not a moral failure if that’s what the data reveals. Rather than offering quick fixes or dramatic exits, he invites you to practice the skill of simply noticing these signals without immediately overriding them, starting with sixty seconds of presence the next time the Sunday fog rolls in. He closes by asking listeners to reflect on their own signals and what those feelings might actually be trying to communicate.