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Weight bias in health care This is a video created by UConn's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity dramatizing the types of biases - overt and otherwise - that often occur for obese patients in the healthcare setting.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoJune 5, 2020Topics: Compassion Fatigue / Guilt & Shame / Obesity/WeightKeywords: bias / obesity / overweight / weight

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Unlocking Us: Comparative Suffering, the 50/50 Myth, and Settling the Ball (24min) We have collectively hit weary. This is especially true for the brave folks on the front lines of this pandemic and for the people who love and support them. And, it’s also true for all of us. In this episode, Brene Brown talks about strategies for falling apart, staying connected + kind, and giving ourselves permission to feel hard things.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoApril 13, 2020Topics: Compassion Fatigue / Grief / Guilt & Shame / Mental Health / PerspectiveKeywords: COVID

This American Life: The Test The coronavirus has now fully arrived in the United States. This week, stories of people trying to rise to that challenge, in some pretty extreme situations.

Contributor: Adam SapersteinApril 7, 2020Topics: Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Empathy&Sympathy / Global Health / Mental Health / Perspective / Resilience / Uncertainty

ZDoggMD: It's Not Burnout, It's Moral Injury

Contributor: Mike ArnoldMarch 2, 2020Topics: Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Moral Injury

Thriving in Scrubs: Making Mistakes One of the most traumatic experiences doctors go through is making mistakes. Though they try to prevent errors at all costs, they will inevitable make mistakes at some point in their training and career. How can they cope with the repercussions – for the patient as well as for themselves, legally, mentally, and emotionally? How can the medical community support one another through the process, instead of silencing the mistake, thus perpetuating shame and guilt?

Contributor: Adam SapersteinOctober 30, 2019Topics: Compassion Fatigue / Guilt & Shame / Mistakes

Thriving in Scrubs: Doctor's Orders Why is it so hard to take our own good advice about maintaining health? We talk to Barbara, an internal medicine physician about nutrition, and consider why doctors don’t take their own advice about sleep and exercise and other good habits.

Contributor: Adam SapersteinOctober 30, 2019Topics: Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Impaired Physician / Mental Health / Obesity/Weight / Resilience / Time ManagementKeywords: exercise / nutrition / sleep

When Art Talks: Expressions of Clinician Well-Being This exhibition, organized by the National Academy of Medicine's Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, showcases art created by clinicians, students, patients and loved ones, and represents their views clinician burnout and well-being.

Contributor: Jennifer ChangFebruary 2, 2019Topics: Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Impaired Physician / ResilienceKeywords: burnout / well-being

Suicide in Veterinarians has become a growing problem Vets, like other medical professionals, enter the field because of their compassion for treating the lives of animals. That same drive and spirit of competition can also lead to compassion fatigue, burnout and depression. Their proximity with death - the regular task of euthanasia of animals - also sets up them to have access to tools for suicide. It's a growing crisis.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoJanuary 29, 2019Topics: Bias / Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Death&Dying / Guilt & Shame / Impaired Physician / Mental HealthKeywords: depression / euthanasia / mental health

Letting go What should medicine do when it can't save you? Dr. Atul Gawande examines the way doctors try to approach death and dying - sometimes well, often inadequately.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoDecember 5, 2018Topics: Compassion Fatigue / Death&Dying / Empathy&Sympathy / PerspectiveKeywords: death / dying / grief / perspective

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