Trauma in Essential Workers After COVID-19

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A listener question stemming from her own concern about relatives working in the medical field spawned this mini episode. The doctors talk grit, gratitude and self-care while addressing how much trauma we can expect to see after the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Mentions: Road To Resilience podcast https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/road-resilience/calm-through-chaos You can find all of our resources on our website: https://www.la-not-so-confidential.com/ L.A. Not So Confidential is proud to be part of the Crawlspace Media Network. http://crawlspace-media.com/

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0:00.0	And the So, Oh, Hey folks, welcome back. This is a super mini episode of LA not so
0:46.0	confidential. This is Dr Scott. I'm here with my bestie. Hey it's Dr Shiloh
0:50.6	here as well. So why are we here Shiloh?
0:54.2	Well, I thought it would be good to read a email
0:57.0	that we got from one of our listeners
0:59.4	because it's appropriate for right now
1:01.0	and I think it deserves a little bit of time on its own. So this comes
1:05.4	from Sarah in Ohio and she says in part I appreciate your discussion on how to
1:10.1	keep your mental health in check during this pandemic.
1:13.0	I live in Ohio and have been furloughed from work
1:16.4	since March 17th.
1:18.2	And the soonest I can go back is May 2nd
1:20.4	once our stay-at-home order is lifted, given that it won't be extended.
1:26.3	So she says, do you think we could see an increase in trauma related disorders in the future
1:31.0	due to this pandemic,
1:32.8	especially within the medical community.
1:35.4	And then she goes on to talk about how she has
1:37.7	a couple of family members who work as nurses and hospitals.
1:42.4	So Scott, I'll let you go ahead and answer first on some
1:47.2	thoughts and how we think this is going to impact community and and medical
1:51.5	staff. Yeah, I'm I'm really glad to have community and medical stuff.
2:07.4	Yeah, I'm really glad to have that question come in and I'm really glad that we have the opportunity to, you know, give some feedback that's based on who we are as clinicians and the kind of work that we do. One of the first things I would say is we're recording this on Thursday, April 16th in the evening.
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