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The Fix (40min) Radiolab podcast: This episode we take a sober look at the throbbing, aching, craving desire states that return people (again and again) to the object of their addiction … and the pills that just might set them free.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoNovember 11, 2020Topics: Addiction / Guilt & Shame

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

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

A Soldier's Tale (by Scott Janssen) Scott Janssen is a hospice social worker and member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's trauma-informed care work group. His book Standing at Lemhi Pass: Archetypal Stories for the End of Life and Other Challenging Times explores the use of storytelling with hospice patients and families. "I think a lot about the guy in this story, wondering what happened to him and his wife, and hoping that the dice are always loaded in their favor."

Contributor: Jennifer ChangMarch 11, 2019Topics: Guilt & Shame / Mental Health / Mistakes

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

We train soldiers for war; let's train them to come home too. (10min) TedTalk -- Before soldiers are sent into combat, they're trained on how to function in an immensely dangerous environment. But they also need training on how to return from the battlefield to civilian life, says psychologist Hector Garcia. Applying the same principles used to prepare soldiers for war, Garcia is helping veterans suffering from PTSD get their lives back.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoJanuary 29, 2019Topics: Bias / Guilt & Shame / Illness & Disability / Mental Health / Provider-Patient RelationshipKeywords: mental health / PTSD / suffering / suicide

Helping patients face death, she fought to live A palliative care doctor, faced with extensive metastatic cancer, grappled with what she recommended for patients and what she wanted for herself - which was treatment and cure, at all cost.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoDecember 5, 2018Topics: Death&Dying / Guilt & Shame / Perspective / Provider-Patient RelationshipKeywords: cancer / cure / death / dying / pain-management

My Human Doctor Medical school teaches us to examine, to research, to treat. We don’t learn to err and recover.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoOctober 12, 2018Topics: Communication / Guilt & Shame / MistakesKeywords: Guilt / human / mistakes / shame

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