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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: Resilience, Loss and Post Traumatic Growth with Keir Rutherford and Lisa Burrell
Description: In this session, we reflect on the experiences, challenges, and growth that define a career in Paramedicine. Paramedics have the privilege of caring for individuals during some of the most vulnerable and difficult moments of their lives—a privilege that carries profound meaning but also significant emotional demands.
This episode explores the essence of resilience: what it truly means, whether our current definitions are sufficient, and how we can better frame it to support those working on the front lines of care. We also examine the cumulative impact of vicarious trauma, the toll of witnessing human suffering ov...