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The Warrior’s Profession — Resilience When the Uniform Feels Heavy — Johnnie L. Gilpen Jr.
From battlefield to bedside — Navy Corpsman, Paramedic, and Pediatric Emergency PA-C Johnnie L. Gilpen Jr. has seen what survival really costs.
He’s answered the call of “Corpsman up!”, treated Marines in the chaos that follows, held dying children in a trauma bay, and fought his own way back from burnout.
Now, through The Art of Medicine: A Warrior’s Profession, he’s helping responders, clinicians, and veterans hold the line — and remember they still belong.
In this episode, Johnnie joins host Chris Stockton for a raw, peer-to-peer conversation about moral injury, faith, resilience, and the…
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