Avoidance & the Health-care Professional

     Don't we just love to think, talk about & act on biomedical scientific minutiae - details. After all, compulsiveness is one of our defining characteristics - see: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2014/04/a-call-for-greater-self-awareness-in.html
     Mention anything about the bigger picture of the psychosocial realm, and most of us become as uncomfortable as young children in a sex-ed class. And those of us who try to initiate mature conversations about the psychosocial "elephant in the room" are avoided as carefully as our elephant. See: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/search?q=avoidance and: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/search?q=Medical+humanities+and+their+discontents
     Trying to avoid life's complexity, constant change & other mind-blowing challenges, is immature, ineffective YET sadly typical, even within healthcare education. Inevitably, it becomes impossible. Like trying to ignore the "oil is low" warning light on our car's dashboard, sooner or later, all hell breaks loose - see: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/09/when-our-whole-world-collapses-around-us.html
     Sooner or later, we have to learn that deep self-reflection & self-awareness is safe, unavoidable and essential. We must get to know & live from our core values, for our deepest most meaningful essence is our actual operating system. See: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/05/time-to-re-set-operating-system.html and:
http://www.johnlovas.com/2014/04/allowing-elephants-to-pass-through.html and: http://www.johnlovas.com/2014/04/core-purpose-philosophy.html