Oct. 7, 2020

Human trafficking survivors and trauma-informed care

"As a physician working with human trafficking survivors, I have become accustomed to those with a history of surviving violence. But the patient in question is in my general primary care practice. This should highlight to care providers that there...

"As a physician working with human trafficking survivors, I have become accustomed to those with a history of surviving violence. But the patient in question is in my general primary care practice. This should highlight to care providers that there may be many more patients out there who have been exposed to trauma in their past, and we need to take this into account. One way to be inclusive is to incorporate the substance abuse and mental health services administration principles of trauma-informed care into practice."

Andrea Reilly is an internal medicine-pediatrics physician.

She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "The challenge of trauma-informed care in the age of COVID." (https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/07/the-challenge-of-trauma-informed-care-in-the-age-of-covid.html)

This episode is sponsored by The Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX). The Nuance DAX solution makes it possible to forget the tech-toggling and reduces documentation burdens no matter how or where care is being provided. (www.kevinmd.com/nuancedax)