I hate those days when I’m struggling to finish my chart notes. Those days when I feel drained and my brain feels like mush. It sucks. Plus, I want to avoid having personal relationships get the dregs of my energy. While I can feel in the flow with patients, I can find getting my notes […]
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When patients complain of ‘tightness’, ‘stiffness’ and ‘pains and aches’ without a specific mechanism of injury it can be challenging. In part because the complaints can often feel vague.
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In my last blog post, I introduced the concept of a clinical reasoning framework and how it can help you reduce decision-making overwhelm and fatigue. I outlined why it’s important to develop your own clinical reasoning framework and the benefit of owning your framework. Today, I want to walk through the three key building blocks
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You’re looking at the assessment data you’ve scribbled on your sheet of paper or in your EMR. Feelings of anxiety and overwhelm start to bubble to the surface.
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It sucks when you get thrown for a loop with a patient. They can throw off your day and it can feel hard to bounce back from these encounters. It can be especially unsettling when flare-up symptoms are more dramatic than expected.
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Dashrath Manjhi was a man who set out to do the impossible. He was a lowly labourer in the isolated Indian town of Gehlaur. Tragically, his wife was badly injured from a mountain fall and because of the mountain terrain, she was unable to access medical services and died. Dashrath decided to change things and
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In post-grad education, the course is king. They’re the mainstay of professional development efforts for good reason. But I’ve noticed in my own growth and development that relying purely on courses for professional growth is only part of the answer.
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Clinical work can be draining and we can easily find ourselves feeling exhausted, going through the motions and experiencing burnout. One day bleeds into the next and little excites us in our day.
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Clinical work is demanding. And often times it can feel that we’re on the edge, between feeling good and giving it our all, and feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and burnt out. A number of years ago I was sailing on Lake Okanagan with a friend in a hobie cat sailboat. One of the thrills of this
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Anxiety. It can range from minor annoyance to crippling. And there’s no lack of opportunities to feel anxiety when seeing patients. Whether it’s an assessment that is running behind, a more complex assessment than expected, or a patient who appears to be rapidly losing motivation for treatment. I’m no stranger to anxiety and have found
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