“Our hope would be that we don´t ignore advances made within EBM, help out spread the good news and get engaged in making guidelines better, as well”.

 

It is so easy for discouragement and displacement to slip in and steal away the impact of advancements that are based on the use of evidence to meet human need. Especially when it takes years to see the difference. So often we lose sight of the time it takes to change culture and for others to embrace the change.

 

Please let us not forget who we are and that even a loosely formed team has power. When we devalue who we are from within, empathy and thinking can slip away in the struggle to justify and survive. Guidelines are not the problem, clinicians need them and so do patients, it is how we conceive and apply them that makes the difference. It takes greater courage to change the process than to blindly follow criticism and do nothing. In the face of change respect and kindness equal the power to grow.

 

Best

 

Amy

 

 

Our hope would be that we don´t ignore advances made within EBM, help out spread the good news and get engaged in making guidelines better, as well.