An ICU doctor becomes the patient after a brain injury, and finds the language of burnout and trauma too thin for what's actually been lost.
Brain injury rehabilitation risks mistaking consensus for evidence. A call for better data, broader thinking and intellectual humility.
Former intensive care doctor turned brain injury patient and advocate reflects on recovery, identity, rehabilitation and life after survival.
A reflection on caring, exhaustion and survival, and how writing, poetry and creativity offer carers a quiet place to put things down.
A near-fatal crash, a stranger by the river, and the uneasy recognition that sometimes survival depends on someone stopping to ask if you’re OK.
A brain injury survivor reflects on friendship, identity and uncertainty after trauma, where survival can feel lonelier than loss.
Experience teaches doctors how to stay calm when everything feels chaotic. High performance is often just structured thinking under pressure.
A patient who can’t speak communicates perfectly. A reminder that listening is often the skill clinicians misunderstand, even when words are absent.
Insight promises clarity, but it often destabilises identity. What happens when you see too much, too late, and can’t return to who you were.
Rethinking “bad behaviour” in brain injury: less about intent, more about control, shame, and the gap between clinical labels and lived reality.
