Recently there has been more and more talk at the health system level about the concept of physician accountability. In Ontario this discussion is part of Patients First LHIN-based initiatives that will have primary care accountable at a local level, possibly with dedicated accountability agreements built into our clinical structures. The issue became even more prominent at…
Recently, after my last blog post, a physician colleague shared that in his opinion, “as usual”, I was “overly cheerful and optimistic”. His comment got me thinking. Could this be true? When conveying a complex message or guiding people toward an often difficult goal, can one be too optimistic? Does optimism alienate people? Is it authentic? What effect…
For the longest time I have loved writing. As a kid, I used to escape in letters to friends in far away places, stories of adventure and recorded observations of the world around me. I hated diaries, though. I didn’t want to write things that simply listed the events of the day, attached to static…
