The Oxygen Mask: Recent Episodes
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Whether you’ve experienced a traumatic event, or feel the stress that may come from working with kids and families who have experienced trauma, it is important to acknowledge the impact it has on you. In our limited-series, new podcast The Oxygen Mask, we explore with Children’s own providers how recognizing the impact of stress and vicarious trauma strengthens you as much as your practice and the care you provide.
In the latest episode, Jessi Schnell, MD, MCW Department of Pediatrics, Division of Special Needs, points out how trauma informed care has taught her some of the skills overlooked in medical school.
Colleagues at Children’s are applying the principles of trauma informed care to their own well-being and sharing their experiences in podcast format. Mallory Salentine, MD, pediatrician at Children’s Oak Creek Pediatrics, talks about changing our well-being culture.
In our limited-series podcast The Oxygen Mask, we explore with Children’s own providers how recognizing the impact of stress and vicarious trauma strengthens you as much as your practice and the care you provide. Constance Gundacker, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin pediatrician at Children's Midtown Clinic, talks in episode three about reframing interactions with families, coping with secondary trauma and the importance of a social support network.
“For me, it's been recognizing that I do need to do self-care. I need to prioritize that if I'm going to be able to really have a trauma informed approach and be able to take the time and the emotional energy I need with my staff, with the other providers, with our families at the clinic that I work at,” Dr. Gundacker said.
This time on The Oxygen Mask, we talk with Mallory Salentine, pediatrician at Children’s Oak Creek Pediatrics and lead physician for well-being in primary care. With a focus on provider well-being specifically, Dr. Salentine shares insights on the cultureof medicine.
“I really want to address the wellbeing and the culture at children's to be a well culture. So many of us in medicine and just the culture in medicine in general is that you keep things to yourself. You bury it down, you move on to the next patient. You don't show your emotions. You don't talk about it. And you really hold it all in. So this is so important that we start the discussion of talking about these things.”
Listen now to trauma informed care supervisor Stacey Pangratz’s interview with Dr. Mallory Salentine in episode five of The Oxygen Mask.
This time on The Oxygen Mask, Dr. Jessie Schnell from the division of special needs points out how trauma informed care has taught her some of the skills overlooked in medical school.
“I think medical school does a really good job at teaching physicians humility and learning to listen to the perspectives of others and admit when you're wrong. But vulnerability is a whole different thing. The trauma informed care curriculum has sort of turned that on its head for me a little bit that, in order to really take care of patients well and to be the strong one, you have to realize what other people are bringing to work every day and what I'm bringing to work every day.”
Listen now to trauma informed care manager Mary Kleman’s interview with Jessi Schnell, MD, in the fourth episode of The Oxygen Mask.
Constance Gundacker, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin pediatrician at Children's Midtown Clinic, talks about reframing interactions with families, coping with secondary trauma and the importance of a social support network.
“We look at not why is someone bad because they didn't make it to their appointment. But what happened in someone's life that they weren't able to get to the appointment.”
In listening to the following conversation between Dr. Bob Rohloff and trauma informed care supervisor Stacey Pangratz, Dr. Rohloff attests to the difference between the absence of illness and true well-being. As medical director of Health Management and Community Services for Children’s Wisconsin, he also draws parallels between trauma informed care and the guiding principles for health equity.
Listen now in episode two of The Oxygen Mask.
“Why am I having this reaction?” In our first episode, Vanessa McFadden, MD, hospitalist on the Milwaukee campus, shares how trauma informed principles has changed her approach to her own well-being.