#119 Protect the Asset with Dr. Jeremy Heffner

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***********SENSITIVE CONTENT WARNING************************** This episode discusses suicidal ideation. Please listen carefully. Join us inside Empowered Surgeons Group here . Jeremy Heffner is a trauma and acute care surgeon fifteen years into practice. He ran the COVID response at his institution. Somewhere in there, his compartmentalization strategy stopped working. He would find himself in situations where he couldn't contain his emotions and couldn't locate where any of it was coming from: which part of the past, which patient, which year. He had hypercompartmentalized to the point that he could no longer find the source. He saw therapists. He did EMDR. Eventually he admitted himself…