'My Heart Still Beats' Part 5: Emergency Room

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'My Heart Still Beats' Part 5: Emergency Room

开云体育 | By Erica Heilman,

Published February 24, 2019 at 8:40 PM EST

A drawn portrait of Dr. Javad Mashkuri with the text Emergency Room written next to the illustration.

"I think in the past, people would say, 'Look. People don鈥檛 want to talk about this.' ... And the truth is, people want to talk about this stuff, if you give them the right forum."

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In this episode of My Heart Still Beats, we meet Dr. Javad Mashkuri, the emergency department director at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, and recovery coach Liz McDougal.

My Heart Still Beats is a project of and 开云体育 Radio. The series features conversations and original writing from Vermont's recovery community: people in recovery from substance use disorder, and people helping those in recovery rebuild their lives.

Explore the full six-part series, and find a broadcast schedule, .

My Heart Still Beats has support from the VPR Innovation Fund, and . This series was produced by Bess O'Brien and Gary Miller, with editing by Erica Heilman and music by Brian Clark.

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Erica Heilman

Erica Heilman produces a podcast called Rumble Strip. Her shows have aired on NPR鈥檚 Day to Day, Hearing Voices, SOUNDPRINT, KCRW鈥檚 UnFictional, BBC Podcast Radio Hour, CBC Podcast Playlist and on public radio affiliates across the country. Rumble Strip airs monthly on 开云体育. She lives in East Calais, Vermont.

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Bess O'Brien

Bess O'Brien is a documentary filmmaker and the producing director of Writers for Recovery, a series of workshops for people recovering from susbtance use disorder. She is the co-host of My Heart Still Beats, a project of Writers for Recovery and 开云体育 Radio.

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Gary Miller

Gary is the creative director of Writers for Recovery, a series of workshops for people recovering from susbtance use disorder. He is the co-host of My Heart Still Beats, a project of Writers for Recovery and 开云体育 Radio.

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