Yeah.

So you have to find some method of a, a how and a why to come back tomorrow, and to try harder and to do better.

And so a- as I was wrestling with that, I really found the Stoic principles to be incredibly helpful about making meaning out of that, right? So this idea of operate where you have control or play the hand of cards you're dealt, you know, to find a way to help that lean into, as opposed to away from, that raw, messy humanity.

So for me, practicing Stoicism became just a, a really critical part of how I practice and teach emergency medicine, so much so that when I wrote my book, The Emergency Mind, which is, like, lessons from an ER doctor on how to perform under pressure, I tried to think about this core concept of what is Stoicism for emergencies, and then build outward from there.

So I, I think it's, uh, really intimately tied to crisis, whether you're the one going through it or the one trying to solve it.

Mm-hmm.

Right? Uh, Seneca has this great quote I love, which is, "Endeavor not to trip over something behind you." Right? So you always wanna keep moving forward and- and trying to figure out what comes next, and I think that's equally applicable if you, you know, you miss an IV you're placing and you have to go place the next one, or on a much broader scale, you have something just truly horrible happen.

That next family needs you to show up for them with the same compassion and love and care and- and ability as you had for the case that just went terribly wrong, right? So you have to sort of endeavor not to trip over that and to- to keep moving forward with it.

Yeah.

So you have to find some method of a, a how and a why to come back tomorrow and to try harder and to do better.

And so a- as I was wrestling with that, I really found the Stoic principles to be incredibly helpful about making meaning out of that, right? So this idea of operate where you have control or play the hand of cards you're dealt, you know, to find a way to help that lean into as opposed to away from that raw, messy humanity.

So for me, practicing Stoicism became just a, a really critical part of how I practice and teach emergency medicine, so much so that when I wrote my book, The Emergency Mind, which is like lessons from an ER doctor on how to perform under pressure, I tried to think about this core concept of what is Stoicism for emergencies, and then build outward from there.

So I, I think it's, uh, really intimately tied to crisis, whether you're the one going through it or the one trying to solve it.

Mm-hmm.

Right? Seneca has this great quote I love, which is, "Endeavor not to trip over something behind you." Right? So you always wanna keep moving forward and- and trying to figure out what comes next, and I think that's equally applicable if you, you know, you miss an IV you're placing and you have to go place the next one, or on a much broader scale, you have something just truly horrible happen.

That next family needs you to show up for them with the same compassion and love and care and- and ability as you had for the case that just went terribly wrong, right? So you have to sort of endeavor not to trip over that and to- to keep moving forward with it.