Wabi-sabi: a virtue of imperfection

Wilkinson, Dominic

doi:10.1136/medethics-2021-108074

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“…The diversity of human experience is to be celebrated even if not everyone fits into the existing guidelines. Imperfection, as long as it is not negligence, is part of our lives, though some cultures are more ready to accept it 23…”

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Pandemic and the human factor

Szawarski

2022

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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As the staffing crisis in the UK deepens, it is time for the policy-makers and professional bodies to rethink the approach to the most vital and yet most fragile component of the healthcare system—the human beings. The austerity measures, combined with pandemic and more recently the vision of a backlog with attached unrealistic expectations of tackling it, have brought the NHS and many other healthcare systems to the brink of a crisis. It is a human factors approach, which emphasises clinician’s well-being as the core aspect of optimising performance that should become our goal. Delivery of healthcare under circumstances of physical, legal or moral threat cannot be optimal and is not sustainable. The pandemic served to highlight this quite clearly. Also, an injured, tired or burn-out healthcare professional cannot be expected to repair the system that has precipitated his or her condition. The approach to changing the culture of medicine may be multifaceted, but ultimately, we should rethink professionalism and the definition of duty of care putting emphasis on the well-being of those delivering the care as the way to assure best possible care.

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Section: Need For Changementioning

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Pandemic and the human factor

Szawarski

2022

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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Wabi-sabi: a virtue of imperfection

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