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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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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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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I love rafting whitewater. And when I had the chance to become a raft guide in my twenties while working at a rafting company, I took it. I spent countless cold, rainy spring days on the river honing my raft-guiding skills. Outside of the mechanics of controlling a raft, the training was focused on reading
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