In case you are wondering, the all-star Monday morning quarterback is me. I’m not good at Monday morning quarterbacking everything, but I do have my specialties: relationships, child-rearing, life decisions in general, finance, and other people’s patients. I’m awesome at any of those categories.
The more removed from the situation, the better I get. My own patients? They’re complicated little balls of nuance that may take me days to sort out. The med student’s patients? They’ve got a lot going on but more manageable for sure. My APP’s patients have their snags but I can untangle them without too much trouble. A different attending’s patients? Piece of cake. A different attending’s APP’s patients? Puh-leeze!
Similarly, it’s hard to know in the moment what the optimal thing to do is when the kid I’m babysitting wants to sleep and it’s not their designated nap time. But if you are narrating your sleep training woes to me I can tell you exactly where you’re going wrong. (Maybe let’s start with the idea that you need to train your baby to sleep.) Does it matter that I’ve never parented a child? No, all that experience would just muddy the waters.
Moral of the story, if you need help with your complicated patients, relationship questions, or parenting conundrums, look no further. I’ve got your back.
SDG
P.S. I hope it goes without saying that I do not actually believe any of the above is true… although admittedly I act like it sometimes.