A Documentary On ER Burnout And Healing Outdoors

Send us Fan MailWe talk with Tyler Jorgensen and Katie Masters about River Therapy, a new film that follows emergency clinicians stepping outside the hospital to face burnout, grief, and the grind of a broken system. We trade real-world ways to reset an overworked nervous system and build resilience through community and time in nature. • The origin of River Therapy and why the ER community needs it • Burnout in emergency medicine as isolation grief and chronic stress • Filming on the Pecos River in far west Texas as a deliberate reset • Prescribing nature as “microdoses” and “macrodoses” that fit real lives • The sensory contrast between ER noise and quiet that helps the body recover • Why “work hard, party hard” is not a sustainable recovery plan • Screening plans and a post-film Q&A to keep the conversation going I hope that everybody comes and we can have some nice discussions about um how to build our teams up and build resiliency and getting outside together.Support the show