Can you remember a time when your working day felt like it was filled with boundless opportunities? Does your working day now feel repetitive and tedious? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could somehow re-capture the exuberance, passion and meaning in our work in healthcare? Resilience has recently become a bit of a platitudinous word… Continue reading A flourishing team – by Tona Gillen
By Melissa Parsons My fertility journey is not typical. I have not spent years “trying”. In fact, I have spent years trying NOT to get pregnant! My husband has two daughters – AND a vasectomy. So getting pregnant was a known challenge. Luckily, I like challenges. We went to an infertility specialist, who told us… Continue reading I Am the One Percent – When the Doctor Becomes the (Infertile) Patient
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas – Hospital Edition by Anonymous ‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the ED, The patients were arriving, without sign of reprieve. The stockings were hung in the fishbowl with care, In a way that infection control staff wouldn’t dare. The patients were nestled all snug in their… Continue reading Christmas poem
This is the first official WRaPEM podcast. It was recorded at a Mindfulness Train the Trainer course run by Associate Professor Dr Craig Hassad in Brisbane. Dr Shahina Braganza, Kate Jurd and Dr Ashwini Amaratunga sit down with him afterwards to summarise the pearls from the day. We go over what Mindfulness is and its potential… Continue reading WRaP EM podcast – mindfulness made practical with Craig Hassad
This year there has been an explosion of interest in maintaining the wellness of ourselves and our colleagues in Emergency Medicine. That interest is long overdue. As many have identified, wellness is the result of many influences including individual actions, organisational issues and collegiate support. For what it is worth, here is what I… Continue reading Ways to Wellness – Dr Mike Cameron
Many of us here at WRaPEM understand firsthand the juggle that comes with being both a doctor and a parent. In the following blog posts, two doctors share their stories of how they successfully combine parenting and emergency medicine, and how their perspectives about their work changed after becoming a parent. Course collision And learning… Continue reading Parenting – part 2
Many of us here at WRaPEM understand firsthand the juggle that comes with being both a doctor and a parent. In the following blog posts, two doctors share their stories of how they successfully combine parenting and emergency medicine, and how their perspectives about their work changed after becoming a parent. Building a positive mindset… Continue reading Parenting – part 1
Post by Annonymous Foreword: This generous guest blog has been written by an Emergency Physician who, understandably, wishes to keep her identity anonymous. In it, she describes the raw and gritty experience of being diagnosed with a mental illness while fighting to remain functional as a doctor, mother and wife. For her, there has been… Continue reading I think you have depression…
By Una Harrington Welcome back to Part 2 in the series on how to find your ‘I’ in Ikigai. In Part 1 of Finding the ‘I’ in Ikigai, I referenced Tait Shanafelt’s paper stating that if you can find 20% of your work to have Meaning, it will protect you against the risk of… Continue reading Finding the ‘I’ in Ikigai – Part 2
By Una Harrington Welcome to Part 1 of how to find your ‘I’ in Ikigai. I was first introduced to the concept of Ikigai when I was attending SMACC Dub in 2017. During my own journey since then, whilst exploring the wellbeing and performance optimisation literature, I have been brought back again and again… Continue reading How to find the ‘I’ in Ikigai – Part 1
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