As many of us - both as patients and providers - are members of the LGBTQ community, we thought Pride month afforded us an opportunity to talk about some of the challenges facing LGBTQ patients and providers working within the healthcare system. This is Part I of a two-part series with guest panelists Tuan Vo (a family medicine physician from Tucson, AZ), and Lyn Ashley Geldar (a clinical psychologist from Scottsdale, AZ). We hope you enjoy our time with them - they were terrific guests!

In this episode we explore a recent article by a neuroscientist about the role of the medial frontal gyrus in rumination cycles and helping us to better establish perspective and break those cycles. https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/emotionally-intelligent-people-use-a-brilliant-4-word-phrase-to-rewire-brain-reduce-stress.html

This was the original taste test video for s'mores flavored items for our convention booths. NOTE: For Spotify Users this is a VIDEO. It's audio-only on other platforms.

Join me (Larry) with our guests K Kay Moody of EM Docs and Glacier Rock Wellness Ranch and Doug Franzen of the University of Washington for a roundtable on the state of wellness.

In Part II of our three-part series, we look at the Medscape Physician Burnout and Lifestyle Reports and we talk about the disconnect between what physicians say is causing their burnout and what they think might solve it!! https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medscape-physician-burnout-and-depression-report-burnout-worsening-depression-increasing-301732504.html

Join Kristi and Larry as they discuss the recent KevinMD article by Kent DeLay "Physician Burnout Programs Should Be Focused on Subtraction, Not Addition."

Kristi, Larry, and guest Doug Franzen, from the EM faculty at University of Washington discuss a recent article from Muse about "toxic positivity." What is toxic positivity? It's when someone is so inappropriately upbeat in the face of tragedy or bad working conditions that it doesn't allow people to even acknowledge the difficulty of the situation. We've all encountered that co-worker. We talk about how to avoid the pitfalls, how to confront the problem, and the the point where an optimistic outlook becomes pathological.

Elizabeth Vermilyea, PhD, joins us to discuss trauma, CoVID, and extended periods of coping with significant stress and overload, and the ways in which it has affected us as healthcare providers. Elizabeth will also be at Happy Doc Hawaii on Sep 24-27, in Kona, Hawaii Elizabeth Vermilyea, PhD, has been working exclusively with trauma survivors and the people who advocate for them since 1991. She is an independent consultant specializing in traumatic stress consultation, training, and program development. Elizabeth creates and delivers customized traumatic stress education programs and consultation to a broad range of professional, paraprofessional, and public audiences, including caregivers and frontline service providers in child and adult mental health, public and private school systems, sexual assault and domestic violence settings, providers working with the homeless, corrections, developmental disabilities agencies, crime victim assistance agencies, and substance abuse programs across the U.S. and in Canada. She provides substantive, interactive workshops on symptom management, compassion fatigue/vicarious traumatization, trauma-informed care, trauma-informed leadership, differential diagnosis, ethics, self-injury, trauma & addiction, and addressing trauma in medical settings. Elizabeth is the author of Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-help Toolkit for Addressing Symptoms of Traumatic Stress and co-author of Risking Connection in Faith Communities: A Training Curriculum for Faith Leaders Supporting Trauma Survivors.

Kristi and Larry and their families go to the Big Island of Hawaii to relax, renew, and check out the Outrigger Kona Resort. Kristi spent a semester in Hilo as an undergrad, and so she gives a really nice summary of some of the major things to see and do on the Big Island. We visit the fabulous Outrigger Kona, and show off some of the spaces and give a few previews about Happy Doc Hawaii - Sep 24-27, 2023. This episode will play in VIDEO on Spotify, and on audio on our other podcast platforms. Here's the spotify link! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ducking-burnout/episodes/S1E4-The-Big-Island-VIDEO-e20mq4n

Hey, did you miss the Happy Doc Summer Camp half-time video on the Super Bowl?  So did we.  We didn't have enough money to run it! Anyway, here it is.  You'll need to go to Spotify to view it:  https://anchor.fm/ducking-burnout.  On other platforms you'll just hear the audio. There is no narrative on this version.

The Happy Doc Summer Camp Super Bowl Halftime Ad! Something crazy happened and our ad wasn't shown during the Super Bowl (maybe it was because we didn't have enough money!).  But we wanted to share it with you anyway, as our way of saying thank you for all you've done, and Welcome Home! To see the video, you need to follow us on Spotify:  https://anchor.fm/ducking-burnout, but you can hear the audio anywhere! Thank you, and hope to see you at camp!

Kristi and Larry talk about the WHO definition of burnout, relationships, the EHR, and loading the dishwasher.

For S1E2, Kristi and Larry dive headlong into the roots of resilience, from its origins in developmental psychology, to its use (and misuse) to describe coping behaviors for physicians today. Along the way we discuss not only what resilience is - the ability to show recovery despite adversity - and what it is not - learned helplessness, gaslighting, and Stockholm Syndrome. Sound like a big bite?  It sure is!  So fasten your seatbelts, keep your eyes on the road, and join us for a wild ride through the land of adversity and coming out on the other side intact!

Kristi Grall and Larry DeLuca of Happy Doc Summer Camp/Angels of Hippocrates are excited to bring you a new podcast!   We're going to talk about personal and workplace wellness - you can't thrive if your workplace is unwell, or the source of your unwellness. We'll tell you about what's coming up in 2023 for Happy Doc Summer Camp: Docs In The Wild - Jun 23-25 - Glacier Rock Wellness Ranch, Packwood WA Happy Doc Hawaii - Sep 24-27 - Outrigger Kona Resort and Spa, Kona HI Future episodes are going to be a mix of guest speakers and popular topics from our programs.