# From Hospitalist Burnout to Driver's Seat: How Dr. Nadia Sirdar Built a Bethesda DPC Practice Rooted in Aging in Place, Women's Midlife Health, and Real Relationships

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Podcast: [My DPC Story](https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-dpc-story-1378645)
Published: 2026-04-19T09:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.mydpcstory.com/post/i-was-a-passenger-for-so-many-years-now-i-m-in-the-driver-s-seat
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After nearly a decade as a hospitalist in the Washington, DC area, Dr. Nadia Sirdar realized she had stopped feeling. End-of-life conversations had become a script. Length-of-stay metrics were drowning out the humans in front of her. She wasn't burned out on medicine. She was burned out on the system. In this episode of My DPC Story, Dr. Maryal Concepcion sits down with Dr. Sirdar, internal medicine physician, public health expert, and founder of Find Bethesda Doctor, to talk about the leap f...

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