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Why sharing your ‘sticky worries’ makes you a better clinician

Tanya Cambey

Every clinician carries worries that follow them home. This article makes the case for sharing them — and for building the kind of professional network that makes you a better practitioner.

Have you ever had a worry that followed you home from work? There is a particular kind of worry that follows healthcare practitioners home. It sits with you at the dinner table, wakes you at 2am and resurfaces mid-conversation the next morning. It's not the acute crisis — those you're trained to act on. It's the slow-burn concern. The patient whose presentation doesn't quite fit. The clinical decision you made that you keep turning over. Th...

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Published 26 May, 2026 | Updated 26 May, 2026