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The Milestone Trap: Reframing Time, Aging, and Expectations

Whether it’s a birthday, an anniversary, or an academic marker, major calendar milestones in medicine carry a heavy, unquantified hidden load. We are conditioned to run a quiet internal audit, evaluating our self-worth against a rigid, linear timeline we created decades ago. In this solo episode, Dr. Santina Wheat shares her personal reflections from crossing another birthday threshold, taking listeners on a journey from pre-birthday expectation anxiety to post-birthday clarity and sovereignty.

Dr. Wheat explores why mid-career healthcare leaders must stop viewing time as an enemy they are…

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