DR. WAJEEHA ISSUES

Hello people,  Let's compensate for the  three months sabbatical!  My first touch to the concept of leadership was in 2020 as a team leader of 6 doctors in final year of my residency , I clearly remember me getting overwhelmed, taking a time out to let it settle. There has not been any looking back after that. Overtime, I came across the LEAD-ER course by society of emergency medicine India in 2021 which discussed subtle changes in thought process to look at the problems through a different perspective. The course was extensive where concepts were given in bits and pieces over 1 month with online interaction followed by offline face to face workshop that extended over 2 days.  My curiosity towards thinking of a leader never ceased and I continued my research on how leaders think by following podcasts of world and business leaders to broaden my horizon. One day, I stumbled upon this course by NHS Leadership academy that spoke about subtle biases we carry and face ever...

Are you a 90's kid in the hospital jungle ? Read on . If you ain't , then you definitely should! Lets vent together. Generations have not become a part of conversation but generations have become "the" conversation at work.We are seeing the wave of millennials to come to work.We are preparing Gen Z to come to work.We are preparing for natural disasters. We are preparing for 23-year-olds to come to work. Transitional Millennial Emergency Physicians: I take the credit of this term. We are people with mixed ethics, ethics of millenials and GenZ. 90s borns we are actually stuck at workplace. Why? Let me explain. 1) We are not the first but third generation of emergency physicians. We don't have the BEST ERs , but not like they were in the stone age ( Early 2000's). 2) People know we exist . Not sure of what we do.  3) Its assumed we know everything or nothing. 4) The bar to cross on is high. 5) Things what ER Physicians did in 8 years, we are expecte...

Hey all As emergency Physicians , we are expected to have empathy , all time . Like a stethoscope it's supposed to hang around the neck.  Sometimes we are so emotionally triggered ourselves it becomes difficult to empathize with others. In a pandemic like situation , you might have just declared somebody dead, on point B another patient is yelling because his meal is late by x minutes. You have to calm them down . Empathise with them . Walking away stating that's not my job doesn't help.    It's like when you're on an airplane and the flight attendant tells you that, in an emergency, put the oxygen mask on yourself before supporting others. The point is that sometimes we need to tend to ourselves before we can be available to others. Self-Empathy is your relationship oxygen mask. With it, you will be more internally resourced and able to create resolutions that value all parties. Having venting resources helps. But sometimes these situations ...