THE PERCEPTIVE PRACTITIONER

Clinical practice is constantly evolving and healthcare professionals are constantly finding themselves playing catch-up.

If you pride yourself on being the best you possibly can be, if you desire to deliver evidence-based and up-to-date clinical care, then you would have realised by now that there aren’t enough hours in the day to keep up with all you need to know and practice it as well.

Spontaneous miscarriage is the commonest medical complication of pregnancy and indeed the commonest medical complication in humans. Knowledge about all aspects of the management and healthcare of women after this event – physical, mental and social – is constantly evolving.

Empathy, by its very definition, requires the healthcare professional to be understanding and to be sensitive to the feelings and experiences of our patients, vicariously feeling what they feel without having actually felt it before. 

The questions that arise as a result include, "How do you empathise with a loss you have never felt before?" and "How do you provide holistic care when faced with a miscarriage?"

I hope, at least in this area of medicine, to be of great assistance to you. Evidence-based facts, news and advances in management, personal stories of miscarriage and pearls for practice will all be made available twice a month, every month.

I hope you will be able to find the time to read the posts. I hope you find this blog useful. I hope you tell others about it. I hope you will see the difference it will make to your practice.

Here’s to you: the perceptive practitioner.