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A list of previous #WILTW (0-100)
Who are unprofessional professionals?
Should we stop making the complex simple?
Is your powerpoint slide teaching or are you?
Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life
Quality improvement as a clinical skill
The dilemma of the last patient
Let’s consider ‘appropriateness’ inappropriate
Giving those who need the most the least
Intentional leadership is just management
Making sepsis an eucatastrophe
You’re wrong, but does that make me right?
As calm as you are, is as calm as she’ll be
Is quality defined by a standard of care you didn’t expect to receive?
Resolution or Resolve for 2016
Avoid a confirmation cock-up this christmas
Should we simulate like spacemen?
How the #NHS spirit “pulls through”
Patient safety in complex contexts
Maximising the social capital of the NHS
Is excitement a return on emotional and physical investment?
The need to improve my social media hygiene
The power of feedback to your face
Can medicine learn from the Television Match Official?
Missed Diagnosis – do we fear for ourselves or our patients?
If you can’t trust oxygen what can you depend on?
The amount of night in a night shift
Not knowing what other people know is uncomfortable
The impact of i-phones of doctors’ decision making
5 things specialities don’t understand about “Ed”
Simulating harsh lessons from history
A parents’ view of the world may also be knee high
Don’t just ‘hear’ a symptom and don’t just ‘see’ a sign
Are hearts and brains enough without courage?
How to learn something you don’t understand
Why you need a digital holiday
I am not negotiating the way you think I am
Are you calling for help for you or your patient?
Quality is not one box to tick
Confirmation bias – the cousin of over confidence
Noise from stress or stress from noise?
Not everyone knows how to hold a child
Admission is not the safe option
Learning to live with not always learning
Still learning, Still training, Still Experiencing
The importance of listening and language
Being honest with the trouble with twitter
Maintaining Morale – What movers and medics have in common
Safe checklists versus speedy check-ins
Understanding the patients who may make you angry
You can make a little effort go a long way
Patience can be the cruelest of virtues
What estate agents can learn from healthcare
The importance of capacity in system AND self
Paracetamol – a simple drug with not so simple dosing
Rejecting the notion of the Emergency Department referral ‘bomb’
Not everything should be open: the value of “Closed Loop Communication”
The Education in the Observation of Education
How to get people to alter their typical ‘change’ vintage
Changing your perspective on time allows time to give you perspective on change
Some uncomfortable truths about insight
Not revealing your grief doesn’t mean you are not hurting
The challenge of learning something new
Am I narcissistic in my enjoyment of emergency care?
The justification of risky behaviour with public or patient safety
Good “Leadership” is tangibly unrewarding but ultimately fulfilling
The frustrating advantage of being difficult
Don’t discharge your discharge summary responsibility
Balancing proper procedure with paediatric passion
What you see is maybe not what I see?
The importance of #connectingwith
#doctorwho would have no difficulty adopting a more managerial role
#Everybodycounts – really everybody does!
Organisation is more than files and folders
It’s not what you say it is how you say it
The importance of being part of a team (Sir Bradley Wiggins says so!)
Learning not to be as busy as a “Backson”
Feel the fear and do it anyway
Remember what you loved to do…
Accepting I’m a curator and examiner of knowledge rather than a gatekeeper of it