The Imperfect Clinician

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! Thank you for being with us until the end of Season 4! In the last episode in this series of our podcast we wonder why the world makes us feel not good enough. Do social media really make us feel inadequate? Why do we constantly attempt to compare ourselves to others? How much does vanity impact our goals and expectations? Yo...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! We hear it daily. 'I am really bad with IT'. What people mean by it? What are they trying to tell us? Is it a tactic to downplay expectations? Is it lack of confidence? In this week's episode we explore cognitive bias that prevents us from being fair to ourselves. We look at Dunning-Kruger effect and how realis...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! This week we complete our Gridlock Triangle with a discussion about lack of self-confidence, the differences and similarities with self-esteem, ways to work on it and impact on limiting personal progression. Does perfectionism have anything to do with our confidence? How much does it matter what language do we use when talkin...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! In today's episode we continue expanding on our Gridlock Triangle of Progression concept by introducing Doubts. Our internal critic, and sceptical self often stands in a way preventing us from achieving our full potential. Doubts can be helpful as they inject a dose of reality to the considered matter. What if the balanc...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! This episode introduces a brand new concept we developed together in order to find our personal barriers on the way to better ourselves. Talking about fear of failure is the first step to understand our fragile but desired wish of progression. From everyday fears, procrastination to atychiphobia, dealing with failure, normali...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! Are we all creative? We can't be! Or are we? What does creativity mean for us, why is it worth to start noticing it and how it can impact our everyday life? We discuss some definitions, examples and personal experiences also allowing to see if clinicians can and should be creative at all? What creativity actually is? Why...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! Remember the feeling where people organise your day for you? How much impact do you have on your own day? How much control do you need? How much control do you actually have? This week we look into planning our days - having courage and commitment to be in charge of making it happen. How do we help others without excessive in...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! This episode is all about offering help and asking for it. Care is usually delivered at a cost to helpers. We explore the challenge of asking for assistance, why it is easier to offer help than to ask for it, how to avoid exhaustion whilst offering help and overcoming barriers to asking for help. What does a story about toile...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! How to Argue in the 21st Century? What does it actually mean - agree to disagree? In this episode of The Imperfect Clinician, Mike and Yuen explore the topic of agreeing to disagree and arguing. They share their personal experiences and perspectives on how they approach different opinions, conflicts, and debates. They discuss...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! We talk quite a lot about reflection... Engaging in reflective practice helps us understand our thoughts, feelings, actions, and reactions in any given situation. It is through ongoing reflection that we gain insight, self-awareness, and the ability to shift perspective. Reflective approach provides an opportunity to deconstr...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MENTION OF SUICIDE - IF YOU FIND IT TRIGGERING PLEASE KEEP IT IN MIND WHEN YOU START THE EPISODE. This episodes is about loneliness, feeling alone, depression, connection, forming relationships, relying on others, control, boundaries, helplessness, interaction, modern world, expectations, friendships and...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast! Today we get stressed. We get all kinds of stress. Can it be good? Bad? Both? How addicted are you to stress? Is it something that gets you motivated? How much impact on perception of stress has your growing up had? We discuss all those questions and more - looking at our own personal experience and asking even more questions...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the little starter to Season 4 of our podcast! Sometimes it is easy just to record a message. That is what Mike did in this short episode starting Season 4. He reflects on the journey of creating a podcast called The Imperfect Clinician, where they share their thoughts and feelings as clinicians who are not perfect. Mike talks about how recording the pod...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the last episode of the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! Do you talk to people? Do THEY listen? Do you hear them? Do YOU listen? Mike and Yuen share their thoughts on how to communicate with others in order to be listened to. We discuss how to listen better, share our Top 3 tips on becoming a more effective speaker and encourage us all to work on...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! Does everyone sacrifice something in life? Is our life a one big sacrifice? Small or big - sacrifices prevent us from maintaining status quo and push us to the new, often Uncharted Waters. What about guilt? Regret? They often follow too. Can we sacrifice more consciously? More willingly? Do we have to sacrific...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! Scared of AI? Excited that AI is going to support us? Anxious? Indifferent? Not interested? You definitely should be interested - it will affect every single person on this planet and probably its surroundings. Is it coming? Is it here yet? This is our early discussion on both electrifying and concern-inducing...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! How much individualism can you accept in a team? None? A little bit? Only strong individuals? Is there an 'I' in the 'Team'. How to collaborate with team players and what does a strong person need? Find out in this episode where Mike and Yuen discusses different aspects of diversity within...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! How much positivity is too much? When does it becomes toxic? How can you recognise it? How are you affecting others with your positivity? In this episode of our podcast we consider various aspects of toxic positivity - dangers and opportunities. Join us and listen to this episode to find out more. In this epis...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! This episode is about Introverts in, supposedly, extroverted World... How to succeed as a leader when others drain us and we gain energy from being in our own company? The quiet power of introverts - how introverts can lead with confidence and impact? Is it time for the Quiet Revolution? Can introverts unleash...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! Sixth episode is quite close to the hearts of many who had experienced trauma. Not an easy subject but immensely important. We focus on PTSD in healthcare as people who are affected make clinical decision about those under their care. What is the impact of the condition and how to seek help? Tune in and find o...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! In the latest, fifth episode we talk about external validation. What is it actually about, what do we need it for? Can we go without? What if there is not enough of it? Or too much? Have a think with us in the latest episode of our podcast. We wonder if your ideas surrounding this interesting issue match ours....

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! In the fourth episode we continue our discussion about Change... We all come across change - quick, rapid, slow, personal, external, changing people, changing world. How do we cope with it? Maybe even embrace it? Scared? Excited? Anxious? We are too - listen to this two-part episode to see if our take on it re...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! In the third episode we bring on Change... We all come across change - quick, rapid, slow, personal, external, changing people, changing world. How do we cope with it? Maybe even embrace it? Scared? Excited? Anxious? We are too - listen to this two-part episode to see if our take on it relates to your experien...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! In the first episode we began our discussion about burnout. Now we continue - we realised that this subject is too important to rush it.  Does burnout sound familiar? If you think it only refers to work - think again... Have you come across somebody who has had enough? How to spot the symptoms? And more import...

Send us a text message. Why not? Welcome to the THIRD season of The Imperfect Clinician! In the first episode of the third season we start our discussion about burnout. Does burnout sound familiar? If you think it only refers to work - think again... Have you come across somebody who has had enough? How to spot the symptoms? And more importantly - can we prevent it? Join us for discussion in this...