My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
In this video I tell a story of a loving husband and wife and the struggle they went through during the wife’s last few months in battling Cancer.
Sometimes we can become consumed in the small details of discovering the cause of an injury, we put on our blinders and make quick assumptions. What is needed more in our practices is to not just utilize the education we have, but also to develop the skill in stepping back, seeing the big picture and affording ourselves and our patients the time to gather the peripheral knowledge.
Too often we get caught up in the science and orthopaedics of treatment and fail to recognize the importance of integrating human compassion and common sense. The clinical skill of slowing down, thinking logically and incorporating common sense is not taught. It’s lacking in much of our education and it’s time that it play a much larger role!
Knowing that my patient had a very short time left in her life, my only goals were to improving her quality of life and perform to the best of my abilities. I’m honoured and fortunate to have has the opportunity to play a role in her final days.
I miss them both dearly. They have influenced me in ways I can not express!
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
– Robert Green Ingersoll