Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.

I'm here to talk about getting rid of burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and feeling

like an expert in what you do.

One thing that created a lot of burnout and angst for me was trying to get continued medical

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We're not trying to take care of insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, or hospitals,

or hospice companies.

Right.

We're trying to take care of patients.

And not patients' families, primarily.

And that's an important distinction.

The patient is who comes first.

That's a great introduction.

And with that introduction, this is Dr. McDodden.

He is a ER physician here in Redlands.

We're close friends with his family.

He also works hospice half time.

And he is a very intelligent person, I think you'll find.

Before he was a physician, he actually worked research doing things like, you know, what

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