#64: Judgment within Medicine

Today the three of us sat down to talk about judgment within medicine. This conversation started at a conference we recently attended.  We listened to an amazing lecturer give his account of what keeping empathy looks like and how it helps us care for our patients and others, like our colleagues. It is also a way to take care of ourselves.  We are taught and modeled this idea that what ever service you are on or whatever your role is in taking care of a patient, that if something isn't done or said how you think it should be said, then we immediately judge that person.  We judge management of patients, outcomes of patients, etc.  We also judge the people that are on the same team as us working together to achieve the same goal!  So we introduce another side to consider and ways to keep ourselves in the judgement-free zone.

Favorite moments:

• And so when we judge, we tend to dehumanize each other and we can also do it in our, in our own patient care. But really, we have to normalize this conversation and we have to be able to kind of take a step back and consider that. Hmm. I wonder what's going on today. We talk about in coaching, like maybe try to be a little more curious than furious.
• So this is just a conversation just to start bringing awareness because I would argue it would be a much better culture if we could start being allowed to be vulnerable, if we could stop going instantly to judgment, because we weren't even there in the room 
• Curiosity keeps us open to the possibility that there may be more to the story.
• This is between me and me and how I wanna show up and I wanna show up as the most empathetic, non-judgmental person that I can. Realizing that my brain's default is going to be judging.  

References:

https://sholarichards.com/judging-others/

https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/

 

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