Everything Medicine Taught You About High Performance Is Backwards

Most of us have quietly absorbed a version of high performance that treats the doctor as superhuman: no lunch, no sleep, just keep going. But what if that model is the very thing burning you out, and real high performance starts not with pushing harder but with admitting you’re human first? In this conversation with Susie Muir, a palliative care consultant and qualified coach from Queensland, we go further than the usual well-being chat to look at what actually matters and why surface-level wellness makes doctors roll their eyes instead of feel supported.