I suspect part of this is the damage inflicted on doctors in medical school where we are taught to be vigilant, to utilise our Sherlock.
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Doing to and with
As adults, we eat our food. When we are unable or incompetent, we are fed. I feed my cat or dog or a baby, I eat my McDonalds.
Restraint.
Today, when you suffer, I feel pain. I can’t shut out your experience.
We exist as a community, if not we perish as individuals.
Barbara Robb – Sans Everything
…where, through an over reliance on targets, process and objectification, people became dehumanised, and where, with the current extreme pressures within the system, fixating on waiting times, bed-occupancy and length of stay, we risk falling into a similar trope.
Dementias 2017
I remember a recent patient, G. who became lost after a couple of seconds of redirection, ‘Where am I?’ Was his usual refrain; G had Alzheimer’s.
10 years
I have spent so long recently crying over our beloved system, this was more like a time to celebrate.
Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion) 