Vicarious Trauma Suffered by Doctors on the Front Lines with Dr. Michael Collins, MD (All Bleeding Stops) [Episode 78]

<p style="color:#222222;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">Author and Surgeon Dr. <a href='https://michaeljcollinsmd.com/'>Michael J. Collins</a> stops by The Intentional Clinician Podcast to speak with Paul Krauss MA LPC about his latest book <a href='https://michaeljcollinsmd.com/books/all-bleeding-stops/'>All Bleeding Stops.</a>The book takes readers to Vietnam at the height of the war, following young doctor Matthew Barrett and his struggle to acclimate to a harsh and violent medical environment.</p> <p style="color:#222222;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">Issues discussed in this episode: </p> <ul style="color:#222222;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><li style="margin-left:15px;"> <p>Raising awareness of the difficulties doctors face in trying to give of themselves without giving so much it destroys them</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px;"> <p>Why <a href='https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20180508/doctors-suicide-rate-highest-of-any-profession'>physician suicide rate is the highest of any profession</a> (more than double the general population) and how to help</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px;"> <p>Coping with a sensitive personality and how to grow from trauma</p> </li> <li style="margin-left:15px;"> <p>The very qualities – compassion, sensitivity, dedication – that often lead young people to a career in medicine, often make it difficult for them to reconcile their ideals with the cold, hard reality of morbidity and mortality: conditions no amount