Healing through words with Dr Hilton Koppe

This episode we are lucky to speak with Dr Hilton Koppe: writer, workshop facilitator, podcaster and doctor living on Bundjalung land on the east coast of Australia. Hilton facilitates reflective writing workshops for doctors and other health professionals with the goal of deepening their compassion, overcoming professional isolation and reducing risk of burnout. Hilton’s memoir, One Curious Doctor, explores the personal impact of working as a country doctor.

We discuss

• His experience of being diagnosed with PTSD
• The moment he was “done” with medicine - and all the difficult emotions that came with it (guilt, shame, feeling like a failure)
• Generational trauma
• Poetry
• His insightful memoir “One Curious Doctor”
• Witnessing the suffering of patients and people dying
• The power of creative writing for doctors and healing the self

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