I have always struggled with when lack of novelty threatens sustaining interest in activity. I remember Louis Aledort's comment at MBA's Hematology CME, when I first attended this in Mumbai. Somehow his comments stood above Mammen Chandy's ode to Lorenzo's Oil. They stuck in my impressionable mind. He had alluded then that the redeeming moments during boredom ridden midlife/after-midlife crises are often an interesting patient, a serendipitous catch, a renal bruit you picked, an opening snap that others overlooked, an anion gap you chose to investigate that turned out to be the real thing, that reinforced your way of thinking. That maybe you should just do your thing, give 2 hoots to what people say, write, recommend. Because you are the one who is doing things in circumstances which surround you.
It is important to ask yourself a question, to rejuvenate the juices or the physical exam skills, to sharpen your skill of diagnostication,to invent a way. You could be very good in adhering to guidelines and doing things systematically. But boredom/ lack of engagement will elicit an error in you if callousness or lack of conscientiousness towards the culture of safety does not.
I think it is important to be busy. But it is also important to decide what you wish to be busy with.
It is important to ask yourself a question, to rejuvenate the juices or the physical exam skills, to sharpen your skill of diagnostication,to invent a way. You could be very good in adhering to guidelines and doing things systematically. But boredom/ lack of engagement will elicit an error in you if callousness or lack of conscientiousness towards the culture of safety does not.
I think it is important to be busy. But it is also important to decide what you wish to be busy with.
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