Dr Stevan Bruijns ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿš‘๐Ÿค•๐ŸŒ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

@codingbrown.bsky.social

PhD, UK A&E consultant (CESR), AfJEM past chief editor, NHSE South West & CQC UEC clinical advisor. Strong views on: autonomy, mastery & belonging. Views in posts are my own.

People who canโ€™t handle criticism are unfit to lead. Weak leaders fear dissent as a threat to their power. They silence their critics to shield their egos. Strong leaders welcome dissent as an opportunity for growth. They silence their egos to learn from their critics.

The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It's how well you synthesize. Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition. It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜† ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ป ... ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜Ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ If thereโ€™s at least one unicorn in the world, itโ€™s likely not the only one. And if one can make a valid English word from seven Scrabble tiles, itโ€™s likely that more than one word can be found. 1/3

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๐—”๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€ Aspirant African EM authors who either have a dissertation to publish, or a first time research publication An hour long webinar, with pointers and pearls, key resources and Q&A Register here: researcheracademy.elsevier.com/workshop/b64... #Medsky #EMedsky #EMsky ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿค“

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I sat in the audience at Africa's first emergency medicine conference in South Africa in 2011 when Joe O'Neil related in a keynote how PEPFAR came about. Joe wrote this editorial for @afjem.bsky.social, a journal I edited at the time. Well worth a read. ๐Ÿ˜ข www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Taking Acute Care Worldwide: Pragmatic lessons from the HIV pandemic

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The loudest voices rarely represent the majority. They're usually speaking for the extremes. You won't understand the views of a group until you've invited the quieter voices into the discussion. Don't mistake silence for disengagement. It's often a sign of deep reflection.

Productivity is overrated. What counts most is the quality of output, not the quantity. People may be impressed by the volume you produce, but impact depends on the value you create. Success is not about getting more things done. It's about doing more worthwhile things well.

It takes curiosity to learn. It takes courage to unlearn. Learning requires the humility to admit what you don't know today. Unlearning requires the integrity to admit that you were wrong yesterday. Learning is how you evolve. Unlearning is how you keep up as the world evolves.

Kinds of incompetence The second worst is the unaware sort. The work doesn't meet spec, and we don't even realize it. The worst is uncaring. We know the work doesn't meet spec, but we don't bother to fix it. But there are other varieties, and some are worth seeking out: There's the incompetence ofโ€ฆ

Kinds of incompetence

The second worst is the unaware sort. The work doesn't meet spec, and we don't even realize it. The worst is uncaring. We know the work doesn't meet spec, but we don't bother to fix it. But there are other varieties, and some are worth seeking out: There's the incompetence of creativity and art, where the spec isn't the point. …

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Relationship between โŒš spent in A&E & odds of 30-day, post-discharge, all-cause mortality: Compared with patients who spent 2h in A&E, the odds of post-discharge death were: ๐Ÿ•’ 1.1 x โ˜๏ธ if spent 3h ๐Ÿ•• 1.6 x โ˜๏ธ if spent 6h ๐Ÿ•˜ 1.9 x โ˜๏ธ if spent 9h & ๐Ÿ•› 2.1 x โ˜๏ธ if spent 12h #EMedsky ๐Ÿ”— shorturl.at/Tvw9e

Association between time spent in emergency care and 30-day post-discharge mortality, England - Office for National Statistics

Relationship between time spent in A&E and the odds of 30-day, post-discharge, all-cause mortality, controlling for other factors.

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We are not documenting crowding in individual patient notes. Makes it difficult to give context around delayed care for coroner, solicitor etc Do you document crowding in clinical notes? If so what phrases do you use?