The Most Important Medicine

Dr. Joe Sherman shares an abundance of experience and wisdom - from Bolivia to Seattle - his career has been filled with compassion and service. But it's also been filled with a great deal of life lessons during his tenure as a pediatrician, husband and father. We talk about the MOST important part of pediatrics, coaching and caring for oneself. With Joe, you'll find warmth, growth and encouragement.

Joe Sherman, M.D. is a pediatrician, coach and consultant to physicians and healthcare organizations in the areas of provider well-being, leadership, and career discernment. His services include individual coaching, medical team support, physician retreats and workshops. He is a trained facilitator with the Center for Courage & Renewal and a Master Certified Physician Development Coach with the Physician Coaching Institute. 

Dr. Sherman has been in pediatric practice for over 35 years concentrating on healthcare delivery to underserved and medically complex children in the District of Columbia, Tacoma, Seattle, Uganda, and Bolivia.  He has held numerous faculty positions and is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington.

Dr. Joe Sherman

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In today's episode, Dr. Amy talks about three ways to think about the people in your village and "build your house" of support! We use the analogy of a home as a way to think about relationships and relational health as a way to build resilience. When I teach professionals this tool, it's called The Circles of Support -but today, I thought we'd take a deep dive into your own support systems through the analogy of a home. I can't wait to hear from you - who are your Kitchen Nook friends?

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Katie Kurtz, LCSW, provides beautiful insights in the world of being trauma-informed and offers practical suggestions for ways providers can "practice the pause" right away! Katie is a trauma-informed care subject matter expert specializing in delivering inclusive trainings and consultation that are adoptable for any profession.

Join Dr. Amy & Katie as we explore how to practice pausing in healthcare, what "felt safety" means and how to move from being trauma-aware to trauma informed. She's a breath of fresh air!

Katie holds a masters degree in social work and a graduate certificate in non-profit management. She has 15 years as a trauma-focused LCSW. Check out Katie's work!

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Ever wonder what it's like being an expert in the field of trauma-informed medicine? Join Dr. Amy as she discusses what's new in the field and in her business. She reviews recent retreats & training, and what providers and healthcare systems are currently struggling with in their work. Learn about ways to engage in this important work as a profession or as an organization. And if you want a deep dive into her recently released curriculum, you'll learn more about it here! Mostly, lots of gratitude goes out to the incredible people and systems that Dr. Amy gets the privilege of working with every day!

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Join Dr. Amy & Lee Cordell from the Institute for Trauma & Psychological Safety as we discuss burnout, creating trauma-responsive spaces and why there's no shame in going through hard stuff in medicine!

Dr. Lee C. Cordell is an expert anti-shame coach, and CEO and founder of the Institute for Trauma and Psychological Safety.

Dr. Lee uses her 15+ years of experience in healthcare, psychology, and education to help her professional and entrepreneurial clients release shame and prioritize pleasure as a path to trusting themselves to call in what they desire.

Her mission is to empower people in the development of safe, healthy, and shame-free personal and professional relationships.

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Today, Dr. Amy talks about the "B" word, boundaries. Join us to learn the continuum of boundaries and why we should all take a radical look at our own boundaries. It's also a sneak-peek into our learning collaborative with a special invitation to join!

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Meet the founders of Tend Health and learn how they're disrupting medicine and providing healing spaces for healthcare professionals. In this episode, I'm chatting with Dr. Christina Runyan and Dr. Joan Fleishman, psychologists and co-founders of Tend Health. They're breaking barriers in healthcare by providing accessible mental health services. These powerhouses are asking the question - "What's the cost of NOT providing these services" to physicians and other healthcare professionals. Join me as we talk about the hidden curriculum of medicine and the value in sharing resources.

Christine Runyan, PhD, ABPP

Christine Runyan is a clinical health psychologist, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Co-Founder of Tend Health. After starting her career as a psychologist in the US Air Force, she focused her research, clinical service, and teaching on behavioral science in family medicine as well as promoting models of integrated primary care. Dr. Runyan is also a mindfulness teacher at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness. At the height of the pandemic, recognizing the undeniable need for expert mental health services for healthcare professionals, she launched Tend Health. Tend Health provides specialized, private, and accessible mental health care and education to healthcare professionals and consultation to healthcare organizations willing to invest in their most precious resource.

Joan Fleishman, PsyD

Joan Fleishman is a clinical psychologist and the Co-Founder of Tend Health. She previously was an Assistant Professor and Director of Behavioral Health in the Department of Family Medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine. She has spent the majority of her career working in medical settings leading teams and building programs to forward the field of behavioral health integration in primary care. In 2020 she co-founded Tend Health, an organization that provides specialized, expert, low-friction mental health care to healthcare professionals. She holds the role of COO and clinician, providing educational offerings and clinical services to the healthcare professionals Tend serves.

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Rola and I were in tears several times as we shared and I listened to her incredible story and advocacy. Listen to her sage advice about physician identity and burnout. You'll be inspired by her wisdom and journey of burnout to advocacy to humanitarian work.

Rola was born a doctor. She just didn't know that her home country of Syria would shatter into a million pieces, killing over 30 members of her family and that she would wield her voice, stethoscope and humanity as weapons greater than bullets and bombs. Dr Rola is an award-winning physician, humanitarian, campaigner, speaker, social entrepreneur and coach. She's the first Syrian TED Fellow and the founder of CanDo - a humanitarian organization supporting frontline health and aid workers to save children’s lives in their war-devastated communities. She has helped build 7 hospitals in Syria, including the first-ever crowdfunded hospital, altogether serving over 4 million people. As a global advocate for health and human rights in conflict, she has shared the stages with presidents, celebrities and grassroots activists. She is a TED and Google speaker, and her work has been featured in most media from the New York Times to The Daily Show including two BBC documentaries. Her online talks have been seen over 11 million times, inspiring thousands to become change-makers. Rola believes the world needs more visionaries, idealists, rebels and troublemakers- people who stand up, speak out and lead for change. She is on a mission to make this a reality, to support people facing illness, injustice and indifference and not just survive but thrive. After recovering from burnout and trauma, Dr Rola emerged a warrior embodying the power of Rumi’s poetry “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I Am changing myself”

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Nurses represented!! Nurse Keith and Dr. Amy share a wonderful conversation about how nurses have been affected by the pandemic, vicarious trauma, staffing shortages and a need to find greater purpose in their occupation. Nurse Keith has inspiring information about coaching, emotional intelligence and how to find greater values alignment within nursing.

Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, NC-BC has been a nurse since 1996 and is renown as a holistic career coach, nurse podcaster, writer, blogger, and dynamic motivational speaker. 

 Keith is the host of The Nurse Keith Show, his podcast focused on career advice, fascinating interviews, and personal and professional inspiration for nurses. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast. In 2005, Keith launched Digital Doorway, one of the very first nursing blogs on the internet. 

A widely published nurse writer, Keith is the author of Savvy Networking For Nurses: Getting Connected and Staying Connected in the 21st Century and Aspire to be Inspired: Creating a Nursing Career That Matters. Keith has written for Nurse.com, Nurse.org, MultiBriefs News Service, Aspen University, American Nurse Today, Working Nurse Magazine, and numerous other online and print publications.

 Living in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico, Keith shares a magical life with his fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a gifted and highly skilled traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. 

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Friends - if you missed this episode early-on, you're in for a treat!

In her debut podcast launch, Dr. Amy engages in a riveting discussion with Dr. Ken Ginsburg, a pediatrician with 35 years of experience. Dr. Ginsburg is a resiliency expert who focuses on building trauma awareness in medicine, establishing tools and resources for providers, and shifting the lens from what is “wrong” with patients to what is “good and right” with them. 

During this hour-long podcast, you will get to explore a different perspective when it comes to treating kids who have experienced trauma. More importantly, you’ll learn how to reframe the conversation with your patients and explore positive ways to deal with trauma. You’ll learn that you can advocate for resiliency, instead of framing a patient as “broken” You’ll also learn not to take it personally and how to avoid changing the narrative for your own perspective. 

As providers, you will need to be there for the critical moments in your patient's lives. This captures all the elements of your patients’ lives, whether it be the good or the bad. However, after listening to this podcast, you’ll learn how to focus on the good, so that when the bad does happen, your patients will be well equipped to handle it. 

Dr. Ginsburg is the Founding Director of CPTC and Professor of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He travels the world speaking to a parent, professional, and youth audiences and is the author of 5 award-winning parenting books including a multimedia professional toolkit on “Reaching Teens.” CPTC follows his strength-based philosophy and resilience-building model.

For more on Dr. Ginsburg visit www.fosteringresilience.com.

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