It’s a little over three decades since I joined medical school and I find myself starting a new journey – exploring deep compassion in clinical practice.
I will be doing so through a Masters program “Human Factors in Patient Safety” offered by the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland from this September. A little nervous, and very excited.
“Human factors” can mean different things to different people. For me, it is about exploring how compassion influences the interdependence between human beings and clinical systems. Anyone who has experienced genuine compassion knows the effect it can have on clinical outcomes – how might it be possible to reproduce this at a “system” level ? And if we did, what kind of effect might it have ? In short – could there be #AnotherWay to how we deliver care ?
I hope to share what I discover over the coming months through this blog …
Emergency Department Compassion 