
Todd Otten
Board-certified family physician (MD, FAAFP) at Plum Health DPC in Dimondale/Lansing, Michigan, former U.S. Navy flight surgeon, and author of "Suck It Up, Buttercup" on physician burnout.
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Sep 15, 2026
47. Suck It Up, Buttercup: Burnout, Betrayal, and the Fight to Change Healthcare | Todd Otten, MD
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Todd OttenGUEST
And even as you list off some of my accomplishments, I think about how that relates to trauma in my past.

Todd OttenGUEST
You know, one thing to the next, to the next, to the next, to the next, right? Yeah.

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But the reality is there's really kind of three whys in terms of where I've gotten to now and what we're working on currently with the documentary and having written a book and all those things.
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Ep63 | Beyond 'Suck It Up, Buttercup': Reclaiming the Soul of Medicine with Dr. Todd Otten
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Leigh SharmaHOST
As you started this process of planning and producing this movie, What guided you in terms of the voices you were including that were going to be expressing themselves in Suck It Up Buttercup?

Todd OttenGUEST
It's a fascinating process of determining what is actually going to get into the film, right? Like, so I'm not going to sit here and tell you that, you know, I went to film school or all these other things.

Todd OttenGUEST
A lot of this I learned along the way, and a lot of it was instinct and trusting colleagues and listening to other voices.

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But part of what we were trying to accomplish with the documentary is to have a broad strokes in terms of the problems that exist, but also provide hope and some solutions and ways forward in the second half of the film.

Todd OttenGUEST
We've got nurses, patients, former executives, a few celebrities are in there, but you wanted people where you could catch the emotion.
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Leigh SharmaHOST
I mean, I think we'll be able to do way more than what we even conceptualize it.
