185 - Doctors Coping with COVID: Tradeoffs's Dan Gorenstein Interviews Dr. Albert Wu About the Mental Health of Frontline Health Care Workers
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
With the possibility of a spike in COVID-19 cases this fall and winter, doctors, nurses, and medical staff may be coming in feeling already depleted from an uncontrolled pandemic. Guest host Dan Gorenstein of the Tradeoffs podcast talks with Dr. Albert Wu, co-director of RISE—Resilience in Stressful Events—which provides emotional support to health system staff. Gorenstein and Wu talk about why health care workers may have low reserves right now, how COVID may be changing perceived stigma around mental health support for frontline workers and what institutions can do to ensure the well-being and resilience of all staff.
KEYWORDS: burnout; stress management
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.9 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public |
| 0:32.5 | health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at |
| 0:39.8 | Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast |
| 0:47.8 | episodes. Today, we're trying something a little different. We've turned the podcast over to guest host, Dan Gorenstein, |
| 0:56.4 | a longtime health reporter based in Philadelphia, |
| 0:59.2 | and the host of the podcast tradeoffs. |
| 1:02.4 | Dan talks with Dr. Albert Wu, the co-director of a program at Johns Hopkins |
| 1:06.8 | that provides emotional support to health system staff. |
| 1:10.3 | This program is known as Rise, which stands for resilience and stressful events. |
| 1:15.2 | Their topic is the ongoing stress, experienced by doctors, nurses, and others in the hospital |
| 1:20.9 | as a result of the pandemic, and what can be done to help. |
| 1:25.3 | If you like this episode, check out the tradeoffs two-part series on |
| 1:28.8 | Doctors Coping with COVID at www.org. On that note, I pass the mic to Dan. |
| 1:37.8 | Thanks, Josh. It's great to be here today. So earlier this fall on our podcast, Tradeoffs, |
| 1:43.5 | we produced a couple of episodes about the impact |
| 1:46.3 | of the pandemic on the mental health of doctors and nurses. The episodes were called |
| 1:51.0 | Doctors Coping with COVID. You can find them in our feed. And in speaking with the team here |
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