Anger can feel clarifying, but without context, it rarely leads anywhere new. In this episode, we step back from the outrage cycle to examine what’s sitting underneath it: systemic grief, misaligned training models, and the shame many clinicians carry inside a profession that was never fully built to hold them.

We explore:

• The arsonist parable: Why chasing villains distracts from the work of rebuilding.
• A profession at its Flexner moment: What medicine’s shift away from the generalist model reveals about where SLP may be headed.
• The normalization of shame: How outdated training structures offload systemic gaps onto individual clinicians.
• The paradox of the nine: What becomes visible when we hold multiple professional perspectives at once.

Sources:

• Duffy, T. P. (2011). The Flexner report―100 years later. The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 84(3), 269.