ER physician Dr Pamela Buchanan spent 20 years inside American medicine and 2020 nearly broke her. She worked 80 to 100 hour COVID weeks, isolated from family, and faced emotional flatline head on. A raw look at burnout, suicide risk, and why doctors are walking away.

Jenny Opalinski worked ICU floors where 10 to 15 traumatic events can hit in a single shift. In EP432 of Out of Patients she confronts clinician burnout, moral injury, and the cost of empathy in healthcare. A raw conversation about survival inside a system that grinds people down.

Shannon Burkett joins Out of Patients to tell the story of her son’s lead poisoning, the systems that failed him, and how she turned rage into action. Actor, nurse, filmmaker, and mother breaking down how environmental harm hides in plain sight.