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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Helping the Helpers

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The heaviest burden of Covid-19 has fallen on the shoulders of medical staff, first responders and others who care for the sick and vulnerable. These people are saving lives, while putting their own health and mental wellbeing at risk.

Several doctors and nurses have written asking for advice on the small ways they can make their daily lives a little easier to bear. So we asked cardiologist and wellbeing expert Dr Michael Rocha to explain the ways he's preparing for shifts on a Covid ward.

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0:00.0

Pushkin

0:07.0

Goldman Sachs's weekly podcast makes sense of a complex world.

0:13.6

Each episode features business leaders from Goldman Sachs, analyzing the latest trends

0:18.5

shaping industries, markets, and the global economy.

0:22.4

Get the sharpest insight from Goldman Sachs's senior leaders each week.

0:27.9

Scientists of exchanges explain factors shaping the economy, markets, and companies

0:32.4

strategic activity, as well as the latest trends in M&A, new technologies, and digital disruption.

0:40.2

Make sure to follow and listen to the exchanges at Goldman Sachs podcast now.

0:47.3

Welcome to a special set of episodes of The Happiness Lab.

0:50.9

The now global spread of coronavirus is affecting all of us.

0:55.2

This disease has brought a host of medical, economic, and political problems.

0:59.8

But it's also given us a ton of uncertainty and anxiety, which are beginning to have

1:04.0

an enormous negative impact on our collective while being.

1:08.1

But whenever I'm confused or fearful, I remember that looking for answers in evidence-based

1:12.6

science is always the best way to go.

1:15.3

And that's where I'm hoping this podcast can help.

1:21.4

I often get emails from listeners asking for specific advice.

1:25.1

But one of the ones I received recently really struck me.

1:29.1

It was from the director of a hospital emergency department, someone who had spent the last

1:33.2

few weeks on the front lines fighting COVID-19.

1:37.0

He talked about the fear and anxiety so many healthcare workers were facing right now,

1:41.4

and asked if I could devote a special episode to helping medical staff and first responders,

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