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.