Nietzsche – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Whether I call them

Mr Cohen

Or Albert

Mrs Shleperstein

Or Gloria.

I’ve got it. A grand unified theory! (thank you Dr Feynman).

The passage of minor electrical currents through microscopic pathways of the heart; organs that perfuse, that push and pull oxygen to brains that exist beyond the complexities of the universe

A final fling of the football, at the back of the net, into the hands of the goalie & a soupcon of Nietzsche.

It is telling someone you love them

As you lash-out with a punch.

Sun, sea and outdated cultural references

(Can you hear the crickets? The Bouzouki?)

Human, all too human.

This is the transparency I encounter when I visit patients at home, in their poorliness or vulnerability, on their death-beds, in their terminal loneliness.

To Kill the Truth

Us, being our country, the West, the media, call it what you like.

Our strained state of frustrated cynicism.

Medically fit – today and tomorrow (3)

You hear this term all the time nowadays, at least, if you work in an NHS hospital, are an inpatient or carer or relative of someone who is occupying a hospital bed. Most often… Are they medically fit? When will they be medically fit? If they are medically fit, have you done the take-home medicines?Continue reading “Medically fit – today and tomorrow (3)”

(0.047) The Speed of Snail

Thank you, Jane, for the insight into why healthcare professionals in the 21st Century are using old-fashioned means of communication to deliver care… Perhaps, it is something more systemic, more general, a holding-on to the past? If you compare the changes within health that are happening today with 100 years ago, you might get aContinue reading “(0.047) The Speed of Snail”

Me, we, dementia and Donne

Once this shift, this change in perspective has occurred, nothing can ever be the same.

We not I.

Us not me.

I search for meaning (& patient safety)

And here is the connection back to Frankl. A safe workplace is joyful. Safety is achieved through the staff having a sense of control of their own lives and meaning for their efforts.