Tag Archive: Healthcare System

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October 30, 2024 11:07 am

It’s the Combination of Trust and Tension that Creates Value in Coaching.

by Sharee Johnson

The process of coaching is a delicate balance between trust and tension. It is not the same as other conversations and it is not meant to be. Coaching relies on a trusting relationship so the Coachee can get to the core of the issue, get under the waterline. And the Coach has been given permission […]

October 1, 2024 11:00 am

The Doctor Cannot Fix Everything, believing they can limits, hurts, us all

by Sharee Johnson

The Doctor Cannot Fix Everything, believing they can limits, hurts, us all Mostly doctors are used to being the brightest star in the sky. I mean that with absolute admiration, there is no ‘tone’ when I say that. Since their inception most medical schools have selected doctors primarily for their academic smarts in STEM. When […]

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August 28, 2024 12:01 pm

To be a patient is to be rendered vulnerable.

by Sharee Johnson

To be To be a patient is to be rendered vulnerable.The trust required to give consent to anaesthesia, surgery, pharmacological treatment on someone’s, a stranger’s, advice might be an act of desperationBlind faith… To be a medical student is to live up to expectation.The persistent commitment to academic learning, to sacrificing a social life, to […]

July 26, 2024 9:45 am

Prevention is so much better than a cure

by Sharee Johnson

Prevention is so much better than a cure every day of the week. Proactive action can help you be well, no matter where you work or what you do. Including working in healthcare. Healthcare workers have so much opportunity to shift the focus to prevention, to generate more health and wellbeing in our communities.  When […]

June 25, 2024 2:17 pm

Retreat fosters a tender heart and a stable mind.

by Sharee Johnson

What a tender act it is to be on retreat. To tend to one’s self gently…. What just happened when you read that first sentence, that word tender?  What belief did you automatically invoke without even trying, as truth? To tend to something means to pay attention to it and take action to care for […]

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July 27, 2023 12:14 pm

Love in Medicine

by Sharee Johnson

Love has a place in medicine and the care is so much better July is perhaps the most sacred time of the year for me. A time to slow down, reflect, remember. To pause and honour, to walk and write. In the space of a quieter pace and the dark, I have found myself immersed […]

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June 13, 2023 2:04 pm

It’s the system you say…

by Sharee Johnson

Systemic and structural changes are required within healthcare.   It’s the system you say. I agree there are systemic and structural changes required within healthcare. Who is in charge of these systems? Who can orchestrate the changes? Who has the power and capacity to change them so that doctors’ lives can be enhanced by their […]