Compassionate Competency: Healing the Heart of Healthcare
By Emelia Sam
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Using compassion as the foundation, Dr. Emelia Sam explores the way in which contemporary healthcare can be transformed from the inside out. Combining elements of mindfulness and emotional intelligence, this work imparts simple and practical direction for practitioners and students. Compassionate Competency serves as a guide for the healthcare c
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Compassionate Competency - Emelia Sam
PREFACE
For many years, I lived a double life.
Having spent thirteen years on the path of becoming an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, I wouldn’t have imagined anything other than satisfaction and pride would await me at the finish line. Though I had occasionally sensed that something was amiss along the way, I simply dismissed it as the pains and sacrifices that I was always told would undoubtedly accompany accomplishment.
But something was unmistakably missing as I settled into my profession. A remote space within my being had been long starved and overlooked in the name of achievement. The structured path I dutifully followed was at the expense of the persistent impulse to write.
For years, I had repeatedly ignored the call. Only in the throes of exaggerated heartache would I permit myself to indulge in the writing of a lovelorn poem. Words never intended for any eyes other than my own.
But the desire to write extended far beyond anguish of the heart. I was a self-help junkie steadily consuming a diet heavy in personal development and spirituality. Along the way, I began publishing my own thoughts on what it meant to evolve, to become a better person, to bring meaning to one’s life.
The blogosphere had emerged and using my middle name, I quietly made my contribution as a faceless entity. The double life began.
By day, I held my job as surgeon and professor. By night, or as I like to say, by heart, I wrote short, soulful contemplations, and explored themes of purpose, alignment and compassion.
Needless to say, I saw no overlap in these two areas of my life. I blogged for a few years and published a book entitled I Haven’t Found Myself but I’m Still Looking. Yet, no one in my professional life knew anything about it.
It wasn’t until I read Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind that I began to see the possibility of convergence.
As will be explained in the introductory chapter of this book, empathy is an emerging conceptual sense
as Pink terms it.¹ As a writer, empathy was a space I frequented. As a doctor, I’ve always been acutely aware of its deficit in healthcare.
At last, the seemingly incongruent parts of my life finally fit together. The things I never felt permitted to truly explore in my workspace were the things it so desperately needed to move it into the 21st century.
Healthcare needs an overhaul.
However, this isn’t the typical makeover we see in various industries; those are the standard attempts at streamlining in an effort to increase productivity and enhance financial payoffs.
This transformation requires a makeover from the inside out. As participants in the healthcare system, we have to take a good look at ourselves.
To solely envision our industry as a system
is to see it purely as methodology in which we are mere cogs in a wheel. Subjecting the public to automated practices certainly removes the touch of humanity that the word care
implies.
It is this ongoing challenge that Compassionate Competency sets out to address.
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
Given that the internet grants access to information on virtually anything, people tend to be more meticulous about their choices. Whether debating upon which restaurant to patronize or which airline offers the best deal, online resources are often considered trusted sources.
Furthermore, rate-based systems and informal rating practices, through the use of real-time social media, sway the decisions of consumers. Healthcare facilities and their practitioners are no exception.
It takes only seconds to find available information on where a practitioner has studied, how many years of experience, and if a history of legal issues exists. And if no information can be found, the individual conducting the search