Topic: Perspective
Helping patients face death, she fought to live A palliative care doctor, faced with extensive metastatic cancer, grappled with what she recommended for patients and what she wanted for herself - which was treatment and cure, at all cost.
Letting go What should medicine do when it can't save you? Dr. Atul Gawande examines the way doctors try to approach death and dying - sometimes well, often inadequately. How long have I got left? A young neurosurgeon describes his struggle with living and dying, in the framework of incurable cancer.
Contributor: Francesca CiminoNovember 28, 2018Topics: Addiction / Burnout / PerspectiveKeywords: addiction / alcohol / bias / genetic
The murderer in the mirror (2 min read) A surgeon's reflection on the death of his patient. A birth plan for dying Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.
Contributor: Francesca CiminoOctober 1, 2018Topics: Death&Dying / Grief / Loss / PerspectiveKeywords: birth / death / loss
Confront harm and prevent medical casualties (~10min) - LtGen Horoho Patricia Horoho, retired Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army and the first woman and first nurse to serve as the Army’s Surgeon General, reveals how healthcare can cause harm by sins of commission and omission. Why Perfectionism is a 20-ton shield (~3min) Why we are driven by 'what people think'?
Contributor: Francesca CiminoOctober 1, 2018Topics: Communication / Empathy&Sympathy / Guilt & Shame / Mistakes / Perspective / Provider-Patient Relationship / ResilienceKeywords: Guilt / mistakes / perfectionism / shame Shame, guilt, and the medical learner Shame and guilt are subjective emotional responses that occur in response to negative events such as the making of mistakes or an experience of mistreatment, and have been studied extensively in the field of psychology. Despite their potentially damaging effects and ubiquitous presence in everyday life, very little has been written about the impact of shame and guilt in medical education.
Contributor: Francesca CiminoOctober 1, 2018Topics: Distraction/Mindfulness / Empathy&Sympathy / Guilt & Shame / Perspective / Resilience / VulnerabilityKeywords: error / Guilt / mistake / perfectionism / shame