All Episodes
The Other Human in the Room — 244 episodes
218. Introspective Spaces with Dr. Anu Gorukanti and Laura Holford, RN
217. Fair Play at Home & Work with Alison Jamison
216. Being Selfish (Retreat Recap)
215. Joan Explores IFS - Part 3 (Fear of Being Wrong)
214. Humanizing Medical Education - Part 2
213. A Deeper Well with Dr Alysha Mackenzie-Feder
212. Humanizing Medical Education - Part 1
211. Real Talk with 2 Ontario Family Docs
210. Joan Explores IFS - Part 2
209. Being Replaceable
208. Opening My Teenage Time Capsule
207. Timely, Not Urgent (A Healing Human Idea)
206. Joan Explores IFS - Part 1
205. What's In Your Garden?
BONUS: FHO+ Thoughts - March 2026 edition!
204. Crazy Busy Doctor Wisdom with Dr John Crosby
203. On Feeling Lazy
FROM THE VAULT: 119. The Messy Middle
FROM THE VAULT: 111. In Praise of Mediocrity
FROM THE VAULT: 73. Patient Manuals
FROM THE VAULT: 114. Hosipicing Modernity with Vanessa Andreotti
FROM THE VAULT: 61. The Pain of People Pleasing
FROM THE VAULT: 48. Guidelines Legalism
FROM THE VAULT: 46. Managing Conflict Well
FROM THE VAULT: 50. HHC - How Embodiment Can Change Our Experience and Practice of Medicine - Dr Hillary McBride
FROM THE VAULT: 39. Illness Anxiety
FROM THE VAULT: 37. What to Do When You Make a Mistake
FROM THE VAULT: 26. Medical Expert Pressure
202. How to Stop Hiding Your Magic with Dr Carlos Yu
201. Share the Load, Save the System with Dr. Joyce Cheung & Angelique Bernabe
200. The Power of Pause
199. Right to Accommodation with Dr Michael Quon
198. The Hidden Costs of Altruism with Dr Dimitrios Tsatiris
197. It Doesn't Have to Be This Way with Drs. Risa Adams, Elizabeth Parsons, Robin Beardsley
196. Weaving All of Your Sparks into Your Medical Career with Dr Katherine Raffensperger
195. From Overwhelm to Efficiency with Dr. Adam Stewart
194. Being a Good Team Player
193. The Case for Scheduling Nothing with Dr. Duncan Rozario
192. Living Your Childhood Dreams with Dr. Ryan Montoya
191. Enjoy Your Difficulties—Lessons from Nashville
190. Give Yourself Permission with Dr. Anne Aspler
189. Two Row Medicine with Dr. Karenna'onwe Karen Hill
188. Rediscovering Your Authentic Voice with Dr. Aditya Nellore
187. Pick Your Challenge
186. From Burnout to Coherence with Dr. Mitch Abrams
185. Medical Misinformation with Dr Kim Bretz ND
184. Medical Storytelling on Youtube with Dr Andy Nguyen
183. Facts vs Story: Interpreting the new FHO+ Model
182. From Medicine to Memoirs and TV Scripts with Dr Tony Chin-Quee
181. ADHD in Healthcare with Melissa Beacom, OT and Tara Embrey, OT
180. Using AI to Reduce Admin Burden with Dr. Amjed Kadhim-Saleh
179. Year 3 in Review
178. How Other Countries Manage Healthcare Demand with Dr Tara Kiran
177. Creative Writing is a Clinical Skill with Dr Tyler Beauchamp
176. Urgent Optimism with Dr Yelena Chorny
175. Dreams to Reality (Retreat Reflections!)
174. Malignant Residency Programs with Dr Lauren Umstattd
173. Giving Effective Feedback With Dr. Paul Tran
172. When It's Time To Go with Dr Frances Mei Hardin
171. Looking for Black Swans with Dr Mel Thacker
170. Marriage and Medicine With Dr Hannah Thompson and Chris Herring
169. Alternatives to Pushing Through
168. Fear of Others' Judgement
167. Self Compassion with Dr Bryan MacLeod
166. Time Needed to Treat
165. Using Your Intuition with Dr Kristine Woodley
164. Spoon Theory
163. Transition Planning
162. Authenticity and Faith in Healthcare with Dr Rabia Khan
161. Making Spacious Money
160. Ableism in Healthcare with Dr Samantha Lavitt
159. Dealing with Disappointment
158. Unlearning Good Girl Conditioning with Olive von Topp
157. Physician Mom Shame with Dr Dawn Lim
156. Holding Space for Difference
155. Relating to Conflict with Pádraig Ó Tuama
154. Reflections on Power
153. Expanding Continuity of Care
152. The Dose Makes the Poison
151. Spirituality in Medicine with Dr Dale Guenter
150. Embracing Uncertainty: Agile in Healthcare with Stephanie Ockerman
149. Eras Tour Debrief (with special guest host Caroline Bowman!)
148. My Medical Family - Dr David Chan
147. Fear of Forgetting
146. My Medical Family - Dr John Blake Dobson & Susan Dobson
145. The 4 Best Time Saving Questions
144. Little Things Make a Big Difference with Dr Catherine LaFleche
143. Asynchronous Patient Connections (+ a special announcement!)
142. Embracing the Human Experience with Dr Sarah Gower
141. How Do You Feel? with Dr Jessi Gold
140. How Are You Spending Your Attention Budget?
139. Changing Your Mind in Family Medicine with Dr Caitlin Christie
138. Are You Arguing With Reality?
137. Disrupting Healthcare Norms with Applied Healthcare Futurist Zayna Khayat
136. Are You a Multipotentialite?
135. MOVIE CLUB: Inside Out 1 & 2
134. Summer Sabbatical Lessons 2024
133. Singing Through Life and Career Transitions with Dr Susan Thouin
132. Integrating Grief with Krista St-Germain
131. Challenges & Triumphs in NP-MD Collaboration with Amy Allen, NP
130. Mediocrity is a Survival Trait with Dr Frances Mei Hardin
129. Part Time Shame with Time Hacker Vikki Yaffe
128. You're Invited: Creating Space
127. Taking a Palliative Approach To Life
126. Year 2 in Review: Restorative Medical Education and Coaching
125. Year 2 in Review: Clinical Medicine
124. Year 2 in Review: Personal Life
123. The Chooseday Challenge
122. Fear & Entitement
121. Am I Overreacting?
120. The Power of Maybe
119. The Messy Middle
118. Money Feelings with Rachelle Siebke
117. The Joy in Medicine Club with Jaclyn Oldham and Natasha Aziz
116. Expanding Our Capacity for Joy
BONUS MUSIC CLUB: Taylor Swift
115. Ironing Out Overwork with Jamie Lee Finch
114. Hospicing Modernity with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
113. BS-Free Evidence Based Medicine with Dr James McCormack
112. Responsibility vs Obligation
111. In Praise of Mediocrity
110. What Theatre Can Teach Healthcare with Hartley Jafine
109. The Right Answers
108. Capacity Check-Up
107. Knowing What You Really Want
106. Creating Belonging
105. Becoming Human Again with Dr Roxanne Cooper
104. When Your Health Impacts Your Practice with Dr Caroline Bowman
103. Becoming a Pleasure Activist (Part 2)
102. Becoming a Pleasure Activist (Part 1)
101. How to Stop Blaming Yourself
100. Connecting With Your Future Self
A Holiday Message from Joan
TOHITV - Thoughts on "Noncompliance"
99. When We Cause Harm
98. 1 in 4000
97. Making Space for You with Dr Willough Jenkins
96. Permission to Feel
95. Interrupting Our Patients
94. Somatic Experiencing with Dr Matt Chellew
93. Getting Curious About Chronic Pain with Deb Malkin
92. Learning to Care Less
91. What Is Your Surge Capacity?
90. Being On Call
89. TOHITV: Metabolizing Impossible Grief
88. Body to Body Medicine with Jamie Lee Finch
87. How to Stop Rushing
86. Anticipatory Anxiety
85. The Two Kinds of Confidence
84. HHC: Overwhelm & Burnout with Dr Megan Melo
83. Summer Sabbatical Lessons
82. Practicing Medicine in Apocalyptic Times
81. My Year(ish) in Review Part 3 - Starting a Coaching Business
80. My Year(ish) in Review Part 2 - Clinical Work
79. My Year(ish) in Review Part 1 - Personal Life
78. Bonus: A breathless insight into body-paced medicine
77. Healthcare Human Conversations: Using AI to Bring More Humanity to Patient Encounters
76. HEALTHCARE HUMAN CONVERSATIONS: Financial Literacy in Healthcare with Dr Stephanie Zhou
Course Preview: Homecoming
75. What Quitting Caffeine Taught Me About Rest
74. TOHITV: How to stop rushing through patient encounters
73. Patient Manuals
72. Healthcare Human Conversations - PRACTICING CONTEMPLATIVE MEDICINE
71. Performance Anxiety
70. TOHITF: Having the Human Experience
69. HEALTHCARE HUMAN CONVERSATIONS - Practicing Medicine With a Mental Illness - Dr Ana Blake
68. Money Shame in Medicine
67. Declaring To-Do List Bankruptcy {New Course Announcement!}
66. Webinar: Sanity (And Humanity) Saving Approaches to Patient Forms
65. TOHITV: Pandemic Debrief
64. HHC: The Impact Of Trauma On Healthcare Humans - Dr Christy Gibson
63. HEALTHCARE HUMAN CONVERSATIONS - System Change Starts With You - Dr Sarah Smith
62. HHC: Belief is a Medical Intervention
61. The Pain of People Pleasing
60. TOHITV: Re-preceptoring Our Medical Training Wounds
59. The Menu
58. BONUS: Identifying Your Values
57. Reducing the Harm of Moral Distress (Part 3)
56. Reducing the Harm of Moral Distress (Part 2)
55. Reducing the Harm of Moral Distress (Part 1)
54. HEALTHCARE HUMAN DR NAHEED DOSANI - "Homelessness is a terminal diagnosis"
53. TOHITV: Imposter Syndrome 2.0
52. Deciding To Call in Sick
51. TOHITV: Worrying vs Planning
50. Healthcare Human Conversations - How Embodiment Can Change Our Experience and Practice of Medicine - Dr Hillary McBride
49. How to Stay Human in a Crisis
48. Guidelines Legalism
47. Creating an Enjoyable Summer
46. Managing conflict well
45. Dealing with Dr Google
44. TOHITV: Patient Forms
43. Why we procrastinate
42. Healthcare Human Conversations: Parenting
41. Healthcare Human Conversations: How to Stop Hating Medicine
Day 7 - How to Stop Worrying About Your Patients
Day 6 - How to Stop Worrying About Your Patients
Day 5 - How to Stop Worrying About Your Patients
Day 4 - How to Stop Worrying About Your Patients
Day 3 - How to Stop Worrying About Your Patients
Day 2 - How to Stop Worrying About Your Patients
Day 1 - How to Stop Worrying About Your Patients
40. TOHITV: The truth about anxiety
39. Illness Anxiety
38. TOHITV: Clean vs Dirty Pain
37. What to do when you make a mistake
36. TOHITV: Overwhelm Exercise
35. Winter Holiday Overwhelm
34. Creating Sustainable Change - Part 3
33. Creating Sustainable Change - Part 2
32. Creating sustainable change - Part 1
31. Reflection: How I am creating an empowered patient practice
30. Lying To Our Patients
29. Weight Stigma: Framing Your Body as a Medical Problem
28. The Self Coaching Model
27. Healthcare Human Conversations: How We Talk About Pain Matters
26. Medical Expert Pressure
25. TOHITV: Worrying that someone is mad at me
24. Fear of Lawsuits and Patient Complaints
23. Is Healthcare a Job or a Calling?
22. Healthcare Human Conversations: How to be a Primary Care NP During a Pandemic
21. Letting Go of Fixing Our Patients
20. Reflections on Shame, Truth and Reconciliation
19. Boundaries
18. Reflections on Impatience
17. Building Belief in New Stories
16. TOHITV: Facts vs Stories
15. Comparing Yourself to Others
Bonus: Goal Shame
14. Imposter Syndrome
Invite: Emotions Workshop Sept 8
13. Heartsink Patient Encounters
12. TOHITV: When things feel really hard
11. Perfectionism & Doing Things Badly
10. Fear of Mistakes & Regret
9. Healthcare Human Conversations: Anthropologist First, Physician Second
8. Other People's Opinions of You
7. TOHITV: What Joan's Favourite TV Show Taught Her About Other People's Opinions
6. Other People's Feelings
5. Book Club: How Emergent Strategy Has Helped Me Feel Better About Our Collapsing Healthcare System
4. Uncertainty & Worry
3. TOHITV: Joan's Post-Vacation Dread and Access Guilt
2. What It Takes To Feel Better
1. Why Your Brain Feels So Tired
Introductions