"Operator Syndrome"

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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1:15.8	All right everybody today a little special midweek insert of the podcast of course you guys already had your regular episode on Tuesday.
1:26.7	I got a text from my good friend Tim Kennedy a few days ago and it contained a link to an article that was written in
1:35.8	2020 in the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine and it's titled
1:41.5	Operator Syndrome a unique constellation of medical and behavioral health care needs of military special operation forces.
1:50.0	So operator syndrome is what we're going to talk about and I know probably saw the title
1:54.9	You thought that operator syndrome was these guys you see that buy all the cool kit online and larp around air softing on weekends and they think they're an
2:06.4	operator but they're not really an operator. A little side story before I get going. Not long ago,
2:11.5	I was out at the National Training Center, NTC at Fort Irwin,
2:15.9	demonstrating some medical products and there was a medical platoon and there was an
2:21.3	E4 in that medical platoon and I swear this guy had I estimated
2:27.4	purchased at least 8,000 dollars of his own gear which when I was in E4 no fucking way that I was doing that that's I wasn't even
2:37.6	as an O4 as an O4 I wasn't even doing that right before I got out you know I'm I'm a firm believer. There's a lot of gear that I did purchase because, you know, just the Army doesn't issue it to you. You know, the old saying, well, if you need it, the Army would have issued it to you that's not always true right
2:55.3	I was pretty lucky when I was in a tier one SMU that wasn't an issue
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