Hooray for another in person episode! This month Aubrey and I talk about our workout regimens as well as some of our other health goals and activities. It's always fun for us to talk about these things that are so important to us.

Last month we took a deep dive into our goal setting systems as the new year started. This month, we lighten things up by discussing some of our comfort media. What are the movies, TV shows, and books that we turn to when we want to feel good? Listen and find out!

Kick-start 2024 with insightful goal setting strategies on this month's episode of Generations! Join Aubrey and me as we delve into the art of effective goal setting in our latest episode. Breaking away from traditional New Year's resolutions, we explore the transformative power of adopting a 'Yearly Theme.' Discover why resolutions often falter and how a thematic approach can lead to meaningful, achievable goals. Tune into Generations this month for a unique blend of father-daughter perspectives, and let us guide you towards finding your path to success. Embrace a new outlook on goal setting with us, and be inspired to shape your year ahead!

This week, join Aubrey and I as the two of us, a seasoned surgeon and an aspiring astrophysicist, delve into the world of resistance training in our latest episode of Generations. We're passionate advocates for weight lifting and all forms of resistance training, a gem in the fitness world often overlooked by the average person. In this episode, we unpack a year's worth of compelling studies revealing the myriad benefits of this exercise form. We share our personal fitness journeys, detailing how resistance training has revolutionally transformed our lives, both mentally and physically. Our discussion navigates through the numerous health benefits anyone can reap by incorporating this training into their lifestyle. Whether you're a fitness newbie or a seasoned athlete, this episode offers insightful, evidence-based perspectives on boosting your health regime. So tune in, get inspired, and join our conversation on making resistance training a staple in your fitness journey.

This week Aubrey and I get back together. Things have been tough lately between school, work, and just life in general. So we wanted to talk about some of the things that are helping us get through it all and that we have been enjoying. We wrap it up with some astrophysics talk courtesy of Aubrey.

Earlier this summer, I decided I needed to take control of my life. I was doing the things I needed to do, but wasn't really progressing as a human in the ways I wanted to. So I sort of made up a system of goal setting and tracking. I mentioned this to Aubrey, and she started doing it as well. So, for the last few months, we have been working on setting and keeping track of our goals and our progress as people, and thought it would be valuable to talk about.

For years, Aubrey danced. And we loved watching her dance. She has skills and grace that made it a joy to watch. But there was a darker side to it, one that we became more and more aware of the older she got. And, as you will hear, she still carries some of the marks and baggage from that experience. But ranting is part of the healing process, so this week we get to begin the path to healing from the experience that was Aubrey's time as a dancer.

This month Aubrey and I decided to just have fun with it. We dive into some of our recent media enjoyment, and talk about games, music, movies, TV and books that have been helping to get us through this crazy thing we call life.

We're back! Aubrey and Peter finally get their schedules to align to allow us to talk again. The plan is to make this a regular thing again, so we are sorry and appreciate everyone's patience. We discuss work and virtue signaling in medicine this week, and, as is often the case, Peter bags on hospital administration in the way he so often does.

Welcome to Generations: A Middle Distance podcast. Yep, that's the new name for The Middle of Medicine. We felt that, being a father/daughter duo, Generations was more accurate in conveying what we will be talking about going forward. This week, it was survival. More specifically, those little hobbies and pastimes that help us make it through the grime, muck, and suck that is real life.

The speed of light. It's one of those things that we just sort of take for granted. It's as fast as things get. But what if it wasn't? What if something could go faster than the speed of light? That would be a big deal. Like, world changing big deal. Well, maybe something can, and that something is information. Aubrey takes us through the Nobel Prize for physics this year and we talk about just how big of a deal it is.

This week is all about change. We discuss some upcoming changes to the podcast schedule, and more importantly changes to the direction and future of the pod. These changes reflect changes in the lives of some of us, and we discuss why those changes are happening.

It's been a couple of months and it's time for us to get back into the swing of things. This week Aubrey and I catch up on life, and then talk about some of the red flags we have seen. Whether it is something in someone's chart, or comments they have made to us, we talk about comments that make us just a little more cautious when it comes to health care.

This week we discuss a few science and medicine related thoughts from the past few weeks. We geek out about the first images from the JWST, discuss a first for Aubrey, and rant about just how ridiculously out of touch hospital administration is. I'll give you a hint, the answer is very. Oh, and a little adventure in surgery to wrap up this topic grab bag.

Medicine can overwhelm. It isn't really something we can let go. It doesn't stop when you walk out of the hospital or the clinic. So this week we introduce Interludes. Going forward, we will have an interlude episode when we feel that we want to talk about something else. And this week, we wanted to talk about Dr. Strange In the Multiverse of Madness. Since it is our podcast, we decided to just go for it.

Medicine continues to make huge leaps forward. We can treat and cure things these days that would have been deadly not that many years ago. With that advancement comes expectations. And sometimes those expectations are difficult or impossible to meet. Aubrey and I discuss our experience dealing with those expectations and when we can't meet them.

Education is a lifelong pursuit. In medicine, there are some very particular ways in which we learn and are taught. The fiction of medicine in TV and movies often really makes a mess of medical education. We discuss our experiences teaching and being taught, including the art of not knowing an answer.

We've been talking about burnout. We talked about how all the currently offered solutions are pretty bad, because they rely on the individual addressing it. And burnout is a systematic problem.

But that doesn't mean that self-care is worthless. Quite the opposite. It is essential, but to combat burnout, but also just in general. We all need to take care of ourselves. Aubrey and I talk about some of the methods we apply to try to take care of ourselves.

Two weeks ago, we discussed many of the causes of healthcare worker burnout. This week we discuss some of the solutions offered, and weigh in on their chances of success. I'll give you a hint, they have very little chance of succeeding.

We all experience burnout. But burnout in healthcare is something that is only getting worse and worse. Aubrey wrote a paper about it and we felt it was so important to discuss that we needed to talk about it. We planned on talking about the problems and solutions in a single episode. But it was far too long for that. Here is part #1, discussing the problems and causes of burnout in healthcare.