Healing the Healer: Traumatic Experiences in the Life of a Physician, How to Recognize Them & What We Can Do to Mend Our Souls w/Dr. Stacia Dearmin, MD

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In medicine, trauma is embedded in the work that we do.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From unexpected patient outcomes, witnessing people’s struggles, to Covid and the small, sneaky, cumulative ways our jobs can start to weigh on us.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this line of work, we’re conditioned to be stoic, to tell ourselves that we’re okay even though a lot of trauma is heaped on us.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We pour a lot of ourselves into our patients and our loved ones, but we can’t pour from a cracked cup, let alone an empty one. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why is the spectrum for what we view as trauma much wider than we think?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do we uncover and identify the traumas we’ve been accumulating on the job?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, I’m joined by</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">nationally recognized speaker, coach, writer, and founder of Thrive Physician, Dr. Stacia Dearmin.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We discuss trauma, a very important subject that’s affecting many lives in medicine, and the steps we can take to heal it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>- What constitutes a trauma response</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even if a challenging experience ultimately turns out okay, how does that intermediate zone of uncertainty leave a traumatic residue? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>- The far-reaching effects of physician trauma </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unaddressed trauma eats away at the very gift that brought us into medicine, which will impact our patie