Competence Navigating Liminality

     The ongoing joke in the British comedy, 'Doc Martin', is that this former surgeon is phobic about blood. Whether his own or his patients', he gags, and often vomits at the sight of blood. He's ridiculed about this, particularly by his former surgical colleagues.
     Sadly, many health-care professionals have a similar visceral aversion to their own & others' inner life, existential matters, the meaning of life etc. Many of us are frightfully incompetent in this liminal arena, and therefore avoid it at all costs - negatively impacting our own, our loved ones' and our patients' quality of life. 
     See: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/search?q=existential
     and: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/search?q=avoidance

     Of course most of us can learn to skillfully, safely navigate our own inner terrain. Meditation practices have been perfected over thousands of years. Mindfulness meditation is evidence-based, tailored to educated professionals, readily approachable, and widely available.

Martin Clunes as "Doc Martin"