Just finished reading Tiny uncertain miracles by Michelle Johnston @Eleytherius Fabulous. Couldn’t put it down. Has resuscitated my love of reading. Thank you!
This informs my skepticism:
"More than 9 in 10 healthcare interventions studied within recent Cochrane Reviews are not supported by high-quality evidence, and harms are under-reported."
https://t.co/REXqfs1z7g
@cochranecollab @CochraneLibrary @First10EM
We are in a compassion drought in healthcare…
🔥 increased workload and demand
🔥 increased occupational violence
🔥 c*vid- physical/psychological barriers
🔥 moral injury
@ShahinaBraganza@WRAPEMtweet#wrapem#compassion
Patients usually communicate with us with emotion and we often reply with fact. It makes a big difference to start by acknowledging the emotional component of the patient’s symptoms.
@ShahinaBraganza @WRAPEMtweet #wrapem#compassion
The ‘tea’briefs will happen anyway as everyone needs to decompress and deactivate. This is the importance of regular, reliable and psychologically-safe hot debriefs.
@DrUnaEM @WRAPEMtweet #wrapem#debriefing
‘EM docs complete 100 tasks per hour. 42% of those tasks are communication related, yet we hardly get any training in how to do this well.’
Dr Melanie Rule speaking about conflict and communication at @WRAPEMtweet
@nandofundo keeping us up-to-date on fever in kids. Does immunisation change the risk of serious bacterial infection? @pemcourses https://t.co/8kUe3VOY1p
@theMJA@JudkinsSimon@johnubonn@claski@acemonline Exactly. ED is where the failures of the health system become visible as it is the place of last resort for failures of hospital access, primary care, NDIS, community mental health services and many more.