S6 E19 Checked Out In Uniform: The Burnout Episode with hosts Bonnie, Stacy and David

About this episode

The episode discusses the often-overlooked issue of burnout among first responders and the cultural barriers to addressing it.

Burnout in first responders doesn't announce itself. It doesn't look like a crisis. It looks like a paramedic who still shows up, still runs the calls, still does the job — and feels absolutely nothing while doing it. In this episode of Responder Resilience, Lt. David Dachinger (ret.), Dr. Stacy Raymond, and Bonnie Rumilly, LCSW, EMT have the conversation that first responder culture has spent decades making almost impossible to have. What burnout actually is — clinically, culturally, and p...

People in this episode

Hosts: Lt. David Dachinger, Dr. Stacy Raymond, Bonnie Rumilly

Topics covered

• burnout
• first responders
• mental health
• paramedic culture
• emotional resilience

Keywords

• burnout
• first responders
• mental health
• paramedics
• emotional resilience
• crisis
• culture

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