Comments on: Healthcare is a monster.

By: Jer Swigart

Jer Swigart — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:18:25 +0000

My friend. Thank you for this. I am drawn to similar sentiments that Lindsay and Meredith highlight. It’s stunning how, even though we were created to work, work itself can become a monster…that threatens to consume us or, simply dehumanize us. I think it’s an interesting and important word choice you’ve made here. In referring to work as a monster, you’ve dehumanized work. No judgment, just a wondering: How might you rehumanize the work associated with your vocation? And how might this shift eliminate any sacred/secular binary, simply making your work sacred?

By: Joanne Sorenson

Joanne Sorenson — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 13:12:58 +0000

A bit selfishly perhaps, I am looking forward to learning from you. I have heard this sort of talk from others in healthcare, and I admire you so for being willing to move into these uncharted territories.

By: Meredith McKay

Meredith McKay — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:12:54 +0000

In an interesting point of consonance, I hadn’t even read your blog post when I decided that the note I needed to write myself on my bathroom mirror this week was “don’t let the job eat you alive” after I had the genuine thought on Monday of, “this job will eat me alive if I let it.” So I do deeply resonate.

I am so grateful for and encouraged by your noticing of your previous survival modes – the repetitive “compress” and “decompress” cycle. Grateful because it resonates, and encouraged because I often wonder if the naming and noticing is a very large part of the work.

I am challenged by your commitment to the ongoing and uncharted nature of this journey – I know I myself am so impatient to “arrive” and I think it’s a gift to walk this journey alongside you.

By: Lindsay Knox

Lindsay Knox — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:07:09 +0000

I think it is just really brave for you to swim in such uncharted waters. Listening to you talk about your work and what it is like sounds dehumanizing. Even the way you describe “compress, decompress” cycle sounds almost like the expectation is robotic.

I am so interested and curious to see where this journey leads you and how you go forward from here.