I’m going to try really hard to keep this from being a post about how seriously bad ass I am.
Really hard.
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So here recently, I had to update my CPR and defense skills. I honestly forget just how dumb people can be. And that’s pretty bad, because I don’t necessarily consider myself the brightest crayon in the box, either. I had the pleasure of brushing up on these skills in the presence of Dr. White, and I’ll have to ask him to supplement my memory some, but here are some of the highlights I remember: “I’m not giving no breathing to any patient without mouth protection” In discussion of severe choking: “I had that happen once.. I jumped over a gate, fell down the steps, landed on the couch and couldn’t breathe.. I opened all the doors and called 911″ Talking about defensive moves: “I haven’t had to use it once, except when I strained my back lifting suitcases” I need Dr. Black to help me out with the rest of this.. my mind is blocking it all out. Needless to say, there was a lot of under the table text messaging. So one of the things I’m really excited about in starting my own business is how I won’t be forced (I know I will to some extent) to work with people for whom I have no respect. I could choose not to work with those people within private practice; I’d just be out money. Find out what it means to me!, play on Also, I have to give a big THANKS! to the Music Therapy Round Table and the free publicity! If you haven’t checked out their podcast, or these awesome ladies, be sure to. They are all included in my blogroll, but in case that is challenging, here are their links! Thanks again ladies! A common issue in psychiatry is boundaries. Most of our patients either have none, or over do it. Each patient is different, so there isn’t really a set of diagnoses who adhere to one extreme or the other, although there are some trends. The kids that tend to hang out with us the longest, however, have no boundaries. These are frequently your personality disorders (and as a caveat, me, Dr. White, and Dr. Black all fear for our own personalities on a daily basis). Boundaries, play on Kimberly, over at Music Therapy Maven, has been posting a wonderful series about starting your own private practice. She actually managed to run this series so that it directly coincided with my plans to get the hell out of dodge. Since beginning the planning of this endeavor, it’s made me look at this blog again and again. It’s been a short, bumpy run of it, yes, but what should I do with it? Should I strip it down to nothing and start all over proclaiming myself for who I am and have it be the blog of me the public Music Therapist? or should I shut it down entirely, start a brand new page and blog as my public face? I’m kind of hooked on being the crazy music lady. But I’m wondering how to handle this as an entrepreneur. Any ideas? PS. Name my private practice. I was hooked for a bit on the idea of using the word modulation, because I wanted the name to have the idea of movement (especially upward) incorporated into it. Now I think that word might just be a bit too unwieldy. If you can come up with an awesome name that makes me happy, I might just send you a bag of M&M’s. Current front runner is a facebook suggestion of Total Harmony. All names are mine until I veto So if there is one thing working this long in the system I have worked has taught me, it is that there are a lot of stupid people in the world. Not necessarily low IQ stupid, but just no common sense/no interpersonal skills/oblivious stupid. Through the aid of my good friends, I have learned to reign in my hostility towards these people (I am really a connoisseur of colleagues), and try to work diplomatically. Diplomacy, play on Part of working in psychiatry is the inevitable toll it will take on yourself. Transference, counter transference, not to mention all of our own defense mechanisms being thrown at us one by one. And not even beginning to touch on the truth coming from the mouths of babes on harsher tongues than our own. |
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