Resilience training for burnout is like mindfulness for trauma. It sure helps to get through the trauma a little better, but without trauma management, it’s ineffective.
Resilience training is a personal solution to a systemic problem. Treat the associated causative system too.
I have the honour of working in the same department as Dr Wilmshurst. His incredible self referral to the GMC in response to the #BawaGarba case to highlight the GMC’s response to medical error is powerful.
When you insert a nasogastric tube, a nasotracheal tube or a nasopharyngeal airway, go low and go slow in the nose. Do not aim up. Aim down and backwards. Follow the flat floor of the nose. I’ve met many traumatised middle turbinates. #ENTpearls#ENTsurgery
For an assignment, I asked some of my terminal paediatric palliative care patients what they had enjoyed in life, and what gave it meaning. Kids can be so wise, y'know. Here are some of the responses (Thread).
Be bloody careful seeing patients labelled as "flu-like illness": so far this month I've found a big bilateral PE and a disseminated malignancy (different patients) presenting under the "flu" banner. Watch those cognitive biases! #FOAMed
In 215BC, Roman women asked the senate to repeal the ‘Oppian Laws’, which legislated how much jewellery they could wear & how much gold they could own. The orator Cato the Elder opposed the women and made this speech in the senate...
Not sure what to do with any lovely xmas cards you got sent this year?
Simply cut off the front the card and post to:
Women in Prison
Elmfield House
5 Stockwell Mews
LDN
SW9 9GX
They’ll be used in Dec in workshops for inmates to make xmas cards to send to their kids & family
Today I have resigned as Chairman of @KingsCollegeNHS. I do not do this lightly as I love King's but believe the Govt & regulator are unrealistic about the scale of the challenge facing the NHS & the Trust. I want to pay tribute to the staff & their excellent patient care.