If you are still in healthcare after everything the past few years have asked of you, it isn’t because you failed to leave — it’s because some part of you still believes the work matters.
Years ago I found a safety rule buried in a hospital’s patient-record system that was protecting almost everyone in the building — and quietly endangering the sickest patients in it.
If you have ever given or received shift report — really given it, in those eight to ten minutes between handovers when one nurse hands the lives of twelve patients across to the next — you already know something most healthcare technology projects do not. You know how to compress a complex, high-stakes situation into…
It is 9:47 in the evening and you are still at the workstation. The shift ended four hours ago. The patients are sleeping, your colleagues have gone home, and you are alone with a screen full of half-finished notes — a chart-closing ritual you have repeated almost every night of your professional life. You are…
If you have ever sat in the staff car park after a long shift, opened your banking app, and realised that another year of brutally hard clinical work has somehow added almost nothing to your bottom line — this post is for you.