Resilience in surgery

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

doi:10.1002/bjs.11493

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Second is to build up our resilience 4 . Areas such as emotional regulation, stress management and mindfulness are all trainable.…”

Section: Figurementioning

confidence: 99%

2019 (COVID‐19) and 2021

Lai

2021

Surgical Practice

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And finally, do not give up learning. From a recent study by the World Bank on the impact of COVID-19 on education, school closures and the lack of economic means to support remote and remedial learning had projected very significant problems for low-and middleincome countries. 5 There is little room for surgeons to slack in anyway and we should resist this kind of "learning poverty" from affecting our profession. Continuous learning and continuous improvement should be our prime objectives in this era of "New Normal".

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“…Second is to build up our resilience 4 . Areas such as emotional regulation, stress management and mindfulness are all trainable.…”

Section: Figurementioning

confidence: 99%

2019 (COVID‐19) and 2021

Lai

2021

Surgical Practice

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“…Emotions are an inherent and important part of clinical practice. While a physician’s emotional investment in their patients has great potential to cause emotional harm to their own well-being, such as with the sudden loss of a patient (Arnold-Forster 2020b; Boyle et al 2020), emotions can also be helpful by indicating where attention should be directed (LeBlanc, McConnell, and Monteiro 2015; Seemann et al 2016).…”

Section: Classic Unidimensional Operationalisations Of Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the subjective nature of emotions, deeper knowledge may be gained by asking individuals to describe their emotional experiences. One challenge is that discussions of stress and anxiety are often silenced in a medical culture that has deemed emotional expression inappropriate or problematic (Arnold-Forster 2020b; McNaughton 2013; Orri, Revah-Lévy, and Farges 2015), necessitating the inspection of the cultural context in which physicians are embedded. An overview of work in this area is provided next, and we return to grapple with the challenges surrounding medical culture and the role of emotions in the discussion.…”

Section: Classic Unidimensional Operationalisations Of Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pulling our lens backwards to move forward: an integrated approach to physician distress

2021

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The medical community has recently acknowledged physician stress as a leading issue for individual wellness and healthcare system functioning. Unprecedented levels of stress contribute to physician burnout, leaves of absence and early retirement. Although recommendations have been made, we continue to struggle with addressing stress. One challenge is a lack of a shared definition for what we mean by ‘stress’, which is a complex and idiosyncratic phenomenon that may be examined from a myriad of angles. As such, research on stress has traditionally taken a reductionist approach, parsing out one aspect to investigate, such as stress physiology. In the medical domain, we have traditionally underappreciated other dimensions of stress, including emotion and the role of the environmental and sociocultural context in which providers are embedded. Taking a complementary, holistic approach to stress and focusing on the composite, subjective individual experience may provide a deeper understanding of the phenomenon and help to illuminate paths towards wellness. In this review article, we first examine contributions from unidimensional approaches to stress, and then outline a complementary, integrated approach. We describe how complex phenomena have been tackled in other domains and discuss how holistic theory and the humanities may help in studying and addressing physician stress, with the ultimate goal of improving physician well-being and consequently patient care.

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“…We write in reply to Arnold‐Foster's insightful paper on resilience. Teamwork is an essential component of building resilience in surgery.…”

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