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Nashville, TN (February 2021)—There’s growing evidence that healthcare workers are developing post-traumatic stress disorder due to COVID-19. That may be no surprise, given how difficult this past year has been for frontline employees. But Mark Goulston, MD says PTSD is not inevitable. His approach to treating traumatic stress—called Surgical Empathy—helps healthcare providers heal from the inside out.