DR. WAJEEHA ISSUES

Hello everyone, I'm excited to share with you all that 2023 is a reap year! It feels great to see all the hard work and effort I've put in over the past couple of years starting to take shape (Alhamdulillah!). As a resident, I was always curious and would ask numerous questions that would sometimes irritate my seniors around me. However, not much has changed except for the fact that I'm no longer a junior resident and my audience has changed. But to get to the point, I used to conduct several audits to validate my arguments, but unfortunately, none of them were published. I was only able to pull off two of them till the poster presentation stage, but that was it. Publishing my work always seemed daunting and intimidating, and I would procrastinate so much that my mentors eventually gave up on me and my research endeavors. A month after my residency, I was left feeling clueless about what to do next. However, I tapped into my potential in YouTube, podcasts and re

Hello people,  Let's compensate for the  three months sabbatical!  My first touch to the concept of leadership was in 2020 as a team leader of 6 doctors in final year of my residency , I clearly remember me getting overwhelmed, taking a time out to let it settle. There has not been any looking back after that. Overtime, I came across the LEAD-ER course by society of emergency medicine India in 2021 which discussed subtle changes in thought process to look at the problems through a different perspective. The course was extensive where concepts were given in bits and pieces over 1 month with online interaction followed by offline face to face workshop that extended over 2 days.  My curiosity towards thinking of a leader never ceased and I continued my research on how leaders think by following podcasts of world and business leaders to broaden my horizon. One day, I stumbled upon this course by NHS Leadership academy that spoke about subtle biases we carry and face everyday.The prefac

Hey all ,  Winters make you overthink and act lazy. So here I am making a comeback before summer strikes. Professional setbacks are points where you either redirection or pivot your goals or come back stronger.  The exam that really tested my persistence and grit was MRCEM Intermediate. I failed thrice .The pattern of the exam changed after my second attempt with alot of additions and subtraction . A person who was always above average had to fail to get a perspective on life and explore her personality and get a reality check.  So , I call myself an exam veteran now after having appeared for exam sitting four times. For all those enthusiastic emergency physicians who want to get over this milestone, I have some 10 cents that might help you achieve your targets. I am the best person to give you an insight on the roadblocks , I saw them all. 1. Books to avoid : Moussa Issa text book.  Reason: It's a copy of RCEM learning. The text is totally picked up line to line. If yo

Hey people Hello from somebody who calls writing her hobby and inconsistently shows up on her blog once in 3 months to deliver a monologue. I turned 29 years old couple of weeks back .I've chosen to measure my growth over a year rather than everyday to see how I'm growing as a person. The value system I'm building in. So continuing my tradition of writing down my learning. Here are things I learnt in last 12 months . 1.Knowledge compounds faster than money The number of experiences is proportional to number of goofups. Enjoy the process , carry the learning, especially your mistakes.I've always followed it , I did wander off my own policy but the head now is in right place. 2. Don't take opposition seriously This comes from a funny experience. I'd adopted a pet cat. There was alot of resistance from my family. Overtime, the person my cat likes the least is me. My family is more emotionally inclined to my cat than I am. Give people time t

Hi all This us again not an original article written by me. but found this article too good, not to reshare. Ill share the link to the orginal article at the end of the post. Having seen this in and out of department since day 1 of working in corporate hospital , felt nice as I found more literature on this topic. I am yet to study in detail about it. A gist of articles and tools you can use to make your or your colleagues life easy.  I would be surprised if you told me that you've never seen or experienced it at some point of your career.But we can work towards making the life easier for our colleagues just by acknowledging it. It happens in the ED , ICU , wards everywhere.   Being a healthcare professional is about lifelong learning, and occasionally getting things wrong. We have a duty to provide feedback to colleagues about this and take on board feedback ourselves. Sometimes when feedback is given, with the intention of improving competence and confidence over th

Hello everybody  Hope you're doing well. This is slightly unconventional topic. I'm talking about but as an emergency physician, I think we'd be having more cases like this in future thanks to the awareness and I'm glad we'd be there to help people there. Idea is to learn and spread awareness about dealing with these cases in a civilized way rather than panicking. Men facing sexual assault is also a thing. I happened to read this article on ACEPs website. Thought of sharing my experience as well.Will drop the link in the end. Experience is not unique . Untapped , untouched and forgotten area of my specialty. I honestly did nothing there. But I guess it was God's way of telling me , this can happen , you better be prepared mentally, academically. I don't think I had read about this after I closed my Forensic Medicine textbook in my medical school , later in my MRCEM Intermediate exam.   The Event Last year, I was on night call ,my nurs

Hey people Let's fast forward to the incident directly . I had seen the case of anaphylactic shock where the patient came choking and after giving multiple shots of adrenaline intramuscularly the patient had survived. He was pretty comfortable after the treatment and observation.Later ,he was shifted to the other unit after stabilization .This was a midnight case for me , so after I went home and dozed off.Later received calls that there were some concerns by the primary team as to the "kind" of setting he was shifted and the arguments kind of put off my mood ( ED versus Rest of the hospital , like any other day) . All the resuscitation satisfaction I experienced had gone to trash. Arguments have this vibe to drain you out. Like any other day, I forgot about it, got over it. Cut 2 , 4 months later:  My colleague is about 15 minutes late and I received another case . I was pretty mad at my colleague for turning up late and that I had to take a case at the en

Hey all In my life , I was a part of amazing gathering of intellect and execution on 26th May.Banter ahead . Read at your own risk.  ... Ok? Minds are like parachutes they work best when open. So with an open mind I took an invite to go to a HEALTH QUEST ( quality of gradation enabled through space and technology) meeting at ISRO. It was more of an impulsive decision I'd say honestly.I thought it was just "another" Quality Workshop. Despite reviewing the agenda my tubelight didn't lighten up. It was mainly " the aura" about ISRO that took me there but  the best thing I did was to go there with my mind open, open to possibilities open to troubleshooting open to take opinion from experts who are not from my field open to introspect   open to listen to scope of improvement open to create benchmark.  SAFETY IN CURRENT SCENARIO  It was very pleasant to hear that It was safer to travel in a rocket over a airplane in Bangalore and that the roads are s

Hey all , Lets not waste time and start talking about this interesting topic. This is something I am guilty of and would want to change in me. The art of dissing certain professions starts from home where as kids you're told doctors and engineers are to be looked up and other professionals are just supporting caste of the movie called society.This continues where your professors of your specialty either be in doctors or engineers tell you that how superior they are or others .Its good in a way to have self-awareness but I wonder putting others down or making their job seem trivial makes one superior.  Step 2: You walk from medical school to the specialists post where you see your heads and consultants dissing other specialties .Like a cardiologist dissing out the gastroenterologist, physician dissing a surgeon, critical care dissing emergency physician so this is pretty engrained. As doctors most of us tend to have alpha personalities so the sense of valida

  Hey all Why such a dry topic? Well this dry topic has annoyed me like my dry scalp in winters. Post residency, I had a decent salary in hand and didn't know what to do. I had just come out of a bad health crisis, so party was the last thing I'd do.  I sat down and navigated money management . Its been about a year and I am still exploring things. When I would go upto my colleagues to ask about their savings and investment strategies , I noticed something interesting.  Gender bias . Like a curious kid in the world of finance I would bombard them with questions.I found something interesting gender wise . Honestly majority of the doctors were unaware about where there investments are going. Male doctors acted like they got things figured out by Investing in the traditional real estate , mutual funds ( Suggested by their friends or CAs) , in worst scenarios Fixed Deposits. There was no logic why a certain mutual fund was picked , why a certain stock was picked . It wa