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This is a Beginning

I shouldn’t have to write anything today because it has been over a month a daily writing and I have to write a big, long summary of the patients that I am handing off to the next doctor taking over for my team. It’s not actually that long but it feels long because the patients are often complex, so it is a challenge to find the balance of writing enough that it is meaningful but also not so much that it is only skimmed. Well, I will consider that as I write this evening. I have a nice week ahead. It will be interesting if I can continue writing as my schedule should be overall less hectic but also less predictable. I expect myself to continue.

 

I don’t know that I have any big take aways now that the month is over. I also don’t think I should right the full Lessons Learned piece about the month tonight. I think I will write about what I said to the team as we parted ways after getting coffee, which was, “This is a beginning”. I have a few projects lined up with all 3 residents, so I do feel like today was not an ending but a jumping off point for those projects. In many ways, this month was a beginning, or at least that is what I hope. I did one improv thing a week, wrote every day, and saw patients every day. I would say tomorrow is more important to see it as a beginning as opposed to seeing today as an ending to that experience. I have not figured out what I will be doing next in regard to this writing. It really hasn’t taken off, even a little. Like I don’t think any one of these entries had more than 10 readers, most had less than 4. Some of the entries were regrettable for me by the end of the day. Some of the ones I wrote brought me great joy immediately after and also provided ongoing insight into my professional life. I think it was a great exercise for me. I need to determine if this exercise is worth continuing in this current form. I am not sure that it is, but some component of the daily writing will be worth it. I am open to suggestions. The business about deliberate practice does require frequent feedback with modifications. I think this week could be the beginning of modifications to the process. This is also a known trap for me. Once I start making excuses, it is usually over. I suppose it will be good to change something up, if for no other reason than I have been getting comfortable writing this amount and daily based on the events going on around me. I should have less clinical responsibilities for many of the days in May so I should try to come up with something in addition to the daily writing of blog entries. Time will tell, I am happy that I did the daily writing for a month. It served me well. Can’t stay comfortable however and need to keep moving in the direction of my principles. Just like on stage, each new scene is a beginning and I have to embrace the discomfort once again

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