BridgeBuilders is about encouraging more collaboration + less silos in health care.
There’s a cool Canadian band called Arcade Fire. One of the things that makes them cool is their eclectic and varied instrumentation.
Track two is standard guitar-driven rock. Track five features mandolin, recorder and banjo. The song that follows features piano accordion, trombone and hurdy-gurdy.
Arcade Fire’s frontman was asked about how decisions about instrumentation were made. He replied that it wasn’t about individual musicianship or ego. Decisions about who played what instrument were made by what made the song sound best. He said that the band members were all in service to the song.
Replace the musicians with clinicians, instruments with our varied skill sets, and the song with the patient.
We’re all in service to the patient.
When we get it right the GP, the mental health nurse, the emergency doctors and nurses, and the allied health clinicians aren’t individuals trying to be solo rock stars.
When we get it right we’re playing together as a band. That’s the way to make the health service sing.
Source
Reblogged from bridgebuilders.vision
End Notes
- Shout-out to Edwin Kruys (@EdwinKruys on Twitter) for inviting my post to BridgeBuilder (@Bridg3Builders on Twitter).
- If you haven’t done so already, visit bridgebuilders.vision and have a look around, and read the BridgeBuilders story. Healthcare needs all the bridge builders it can get!
- I didn’t really mean to duplicate the post here, but when I clicked on the “reblog” button it created an uneditable and undoable link with only half the text. It made no sense, so I deleted it. This link-back is to correct my failed experiment with reblogging, but still spread the word re BridgeBuilders as far and as wide as I can.
- How good are Arcade Fire?
Paul McNamara, 3rd July 2018
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