"Physician, Interrupted” is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Kernan Manion, an MD physician and psychiatrist by specialty who retired from clinical practice about 7 years ago to devote full-time to consulting, coaching, writing and speaking.

"Physician, Interrupted”  focuses on the burning issues facing physicians today and the challenges  they face in their careers as clinicians and healers, indeed challenges to their physicianhood itself.

Physicians are under incredible stress today from a tsunami of forces. And that stress is taking a toll. Burnout is reported as high as 50% of practicing clinicians. Physicians are facing immense scrutiny and experiencing extraordinary hassle in practicing their craft.

What’s happening to physicians - and to so many others in healthcare today - is deeply concerning.  

Healthcare as a service industry is undergoing chaotic reorganization. As a consequence, the trained professionals who actually do the healthcare work, and here we’ve chosen to focus on physicians though in many ways the podcast is really relevant to all healthcare professionals, are being tossed about in this tumultuous storm. The very nature of physicianhood and healing is being questioned.

“Physician, Interrupted” hopes to address all aspects of the forces at work which adversely impact physician wellbeing, forces that can even shipwreck effortfully obtained careers.

We’ll be covering a host of relevant topics that help bring a deeper understanding to the state of physicianhood today and the forces which impact it.

• Burnout and wellbeing, and finding some balance between work and the rest of your life


• The role of licensing boards and so called physician health programs and the quality control process in hospitals known as peer review


• The joys - and trials - of being a physician


• Dealing with psychological trauma


• Speaking your truth in difficult circumstances


• Assembling a portfolio career as a physician


• And negotiating impossible binds as a compassionate physician in a decidedly non-compassionate healthcare system

We’ll devote significant attention to a particular area of growing concern, that of physicians rights, to fairness, to speak up, to a reasonably balanced life, to pursue their love of medicine without unwarranted intrusion. 

And, just so that you know that you don’t have to load up on antidepressants before listening, it’s not  going to be Debbie Downer whiner show about how impossible or awful physicianhood has become. In fact, we’re going to be talking about joys and fulfillment as a physician, and remedies; about recrafting your physicianhood; and about actively participating in redefining our role in the evolving healthcare system and healing the very culture of medicine itself.

“Physician, Interrupted” welcomes your joining the conversation, your feedback, and suggestions and corrections. And if you’ve got a burning topic you want the podcast to explore, even better with a guest you have in mind, please let me know.