How I manage fear as a hypochondriac doctor | Jim Down | TEDxManchester
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Whether we like it or not we all face risks every day. We delegate a proportion to our subconscious and rationalize others, but all too often the threat can feel overwhelming. So how should we ensure that our approach to risk is both logical and healthy?
Jim Down examined his career as an anxious doctor looking after the sickest of the sick in intensive care (including victims of Ebola, the London bombings, a train crash and radioactive poisoning by the Russian state) to examine his own relationship with risk. He explored what he has learnt, how his approach has changed and what impact it has had on his own mental health. Dr Jim Down is a consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at University College London Hospitals and author of two books; ‘Life Support, Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis,’ (2021) and ‘Life in the Balance, A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care.’ (2023). He chairs the Hospital Guidelines Committee and the departmental weekly scientific meetings and is consultant representative on the Trust Wellbeing committee. He was previously divisional director of the Intensive Care Unit and chair of the consultants’ group.
In the course of a thirty-year career he has attended a train crash, treated victims of the 7/7 London Bombings and looked after poisoned Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. Alongside his clinical work during the Covid pandemic he was appointed Hospital lead for medical ethics.
He lives in North London with his wife and fourteen-year-old twins and can be found most mornings shivering in the changing rooms of his local Lido. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I am an ambulance driver and am confronted with all kinds of emergencies! I can relate with what you said, but we don't decide who lives or dies. You must be a great doctor! I have seen people die before my eyes and I have delivered babies, not in a hospital situation but at home or on the street. I always wondered, did we do what we could? Have we given the patient everything he was supposed to receive according to our Protocol? God decides who lives or dies, never torture yourself with too many questions! You did what you could and your best is good enough. My respect! 🙏🏻
It's something too stressful as we get it out of there which is harder. Sorry so many things that I couldn't do. Just good wishes to all of you! 👶🧓
There is no god…..now what?
@@mr.c2485 I never said does not exist God. We need to be strong for at least to seeing a God
@@mr.c2485 But there is a God! So, No what. We don't have to worry about that. 😊
I'm a retired ICU-RN. The only disease that made me nervous was meningitis. I wasn't working during COVID or it would have been another one. During my career we did not have doctors in the unit. The doctors would make rounds and maybe spend a total of 5 minutes looking over the patient's chart and glancing at the patient. We were responsible for everything including knowing when to call a doctor regarding a lab result, CT or CXR, etc. I loved the autonomy and I was good at my job. I miss it. Unfortunately nursing is hard on the body and I have serious back issues now but I'd still do it all again if I could
Well done
Paradoxically perhaps, he would be the doctor I would choose to look after me, because of the way he embraces his own humanity. ❤
As healthcare profesionals (RN here) like any human, we all get to a point of being also the patient, while exercising your work, I've been pointed out since the beginning of this career, to seek out first professional mental health before providing care to see how capable are we now in that moment to learn and practice, even during school and practices... dealing with people is not easy, specially if they're sick... we all want help now, sometimes we have to wait, sometimes it takes time, sometimes it never arrives. There is no better advice to my fellow companions in the same than doing it now and finding help for yourself...... remember the worst is never the option 😊 mental health is important. Take it from someone who was going to try it (even though suicide is not the topic)....... life gives you seeds to plant.
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Ya falta poco para que el nuevo torneo de la liga MX varonil
very good 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Well done
Is this real? Should i send money? The long message from Yemeni?
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It's too bad that it's unrealistic to use universal precautions before there is a diagnosis and interesting how he chose his profession with his predisposition. The advice itself wasn't ground breaking and is probably something I could have thought up . For example develop good lifestyle habits like exercise , seek professional help, seek out spiritual teachings which could be clichés or scripture if you like , and get a grip !
Thank You for your honesty, and taking care of yourself, so you can take care of others ❤