Belief in empowerment
When I started my career, as a speech and language therapist in 1988, I was interested in patients becoming conscious collaborators, taking a share in the responsibility for their own health and wellbeing. Medicine doesn't get done to people, they need to buy into it and feel accountability towards making the most of their lives.
I primed that ideology in a NHS setting, promoting the empowerment of people with chronic and irreversible disabilities. I did lots of support groups for people post-laryngectomy, enabling those patients to move on from their dependency mindset. The emphasis on empowerment has served me well throughout my career, never more than in my current role supporting very unwell children at Noah's Ark.
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