#speaking-up

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Psychology
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago

Why We're Wired to ObeyAnd How to Reclaim Your Voice

Childhood obedience conditioning suppresses dissent; cultivating strategic defiance and the ability to say no enables corrective action and standing up to wrongdoing.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Changing Culture When You're Not in Charge

When I was a junior medical student, I was offered the chance to watch a critical, lifesaving procedure in a cardiac catheterization lab. The patient, a middle aged man, had a heart attack that morning, and the cardiology team had rushed him to the cath lab to try to place a stent and save his life. Medical teams typically rely on strict hierarchies to function efficiently under pressure, and I was at the bottom of the hierarchy that day.
Medicine
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