“What do you do for a living?”

“What do you do for a living?”

“So, what do you do for a living?” “Oh, Emergency Medicine! You must have some wild stories, what’s the craziest thing you’ve seen?”   If you work in Emergency Medicine (or to be honest any aspect of medicine) you have likely had some version of this conversation...
Sometimes, Empathy is hard

Sometimes, Empathy is hard

I understand. I’ve been there. 6th shift in a row, department is overcrowded, patients are upset, consultants are being rude, you’re cognitive and emotionally fatigued – it becomes easy for empathy and compassion to fade. The problem is that because...