Failing up and failing better
November 22, 2017 CanadiEM
In this article, Dr. Sara Gray, an emergency medicine physician and intensivist at St. Michael’s Hospital, shares her five steps to failing up and failing better. These are accepting failure, breaking the silence, practising excellent self-care, learning and teaching about it, and taking care of each other.
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