Crazy Busy Doctor Wisdom with Dr John Crosby

In this episode, I’m talking with local legend Dr. John Crosby—a 78-year-old family doctor in Cambridge who’s spent 50+ years learning (and teaching) how to make this work sustainable.

We get real about the trade-offs in family medicine: paperwork, complexity, people-pleasing, boundaries, and the myth that being “a good doctor” means saying yes to everything.

John shares practical systems (including how he learned to “love” paperwork) and a simple truth: you can’t have a humane life in medicine unless you choose trade-offs that protect you as a human first.

Connect with John at his website (including his ebooks): https://www.countryquack.com/

Learn more about Hippocratic Collective: https://hippocraticcollective.org/


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