From the classroom to the emergency room, O-R and beyond.

You're joining trauma ICU rounds with your host, Dr. Dennis Kim.

I think particularly now in 2020 and the pandemic and everything and all the impacts that it's having,

I think everyone recognizing it's okay to not be okay. So similar to, okay, we need to

acknowledge that call is not physiologically normal, right? Like we realize that we need to prepare for

that. I think recognizing that, yeah, one third of trauma surgeons scream positive for depression,

40% of us scream positive for PTSD.

I think being aware of that is huge because I think a big part of the problem is we don't talk about it.

We're not aware of it. We push it aside. We step over it. We try to move it, right? It's another piece of baggage. We just try to move around it.

And then all of a sudden you're standing in a room and you can't move because you're surrounded by

baggage. It's Dr. Jamie Coleman, our guest professor on rounds this week, who I had the opportunity

to sit down and chat with just prior to the new year. Dr. Coleman is a trauma and acute care

surgeon at Denver Health. She completed her BA and medical

doctorate at the University of Tennessee, followed by her residency in general surgery at

Rush University Medical Center, Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Further, Dr. Coleman

completed a two-year fellowship in trauma surgical critical care at Emory University,

Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. From Memphis to Cook County to Grady, I think it's pretty obvious that Jamie

is no stranger to working hard and that she's dedicated to caring for the vulnerable and

underserved. Additionally, Dr. Coleman is a medical media expert, public speaker, and a wonderful and gifted

writer as well as blogger.

Personally, I think she offers a fresh and really unique perspective on how we can

better navigate work-life challenges amid a demanding and what can certainly be at times

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