No stone left unturned
For the last 30-plus years, UK psychiatry has operated on certain tried and tested models that have shaped the practice and delivery of mental health care. These models have provided a solid foundation for diagnosing and treating a range of psychiatric conditions. However, over this period, psychiatry has been evolving significantly, driven by advances in ...
In a BMA article by Serene Boyd 21 May 2024 “Be resilient? What do you think I’m doing?“, Boyd says, “‘Resilience’ has become a loaded word. It is a quality everyone wants and needs, but is it right to tell doctors to be more resilient when it is their workplaces that are at fault.” https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/be-resilient-what-do-you-think-i-m-doing ...
It may not be obvious to some why this topic is on a psychiatry website i.e. ‘what has psychiatry to do with career and pivoting?’ I’ve been picking up consistently that many doctors – mainly younger ones below 40 – are feeling trapped, demoralised and unable to progress in their careers. Many are burnt out ...
Today I explore the term ‘systemic disempowerment‘ (SD) as pertains to large health and social care services. Health services are without doubt inseparably intertwined with social care services. The concept of SD moves beyond ideas of learned helplessness, which is so often thrown around. The concept of SD is far wider and deeper as this ...
The delivery of healthcare is complex business. Often times records are compiled by large numbers of people in teams or extension of teams about a single patient. The vast majority of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are text-based. Understanding a patient’s condition(s) and needs from records is often demanding of time, effort and concentration. Overall, both ...
I was thinking about caring in the context of healthcare (only) for this exploration. There are some elements of care that involve providing services – for example diagnostics, investigations, nursing care, medical procedures and so on. But I needed to look deeper than that. I did not really want to see care as just services ...
Burnout is a psychological syndrome that results from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. One of the first issues is ‘stress’. Not everybody feels it in the same way. Not all stress is bad. People have difficulty being aware when they are under abnormal stress. This article was followed by Getting serious ...
