layout: true background-image: url(../../images/slide_background.jpg) background-size: cover class: middle --- # Music, Podcasts and the On Call Map ### Medium Quotes --- ### “I’ve gained a lot of experience in 6 years, but at the beginning I found apps and online info quite helpful, e.g. Youtube to listen to relaxing music to ensure a better night’s sleep. Or if I had a difficult situation, I’d look for advice on Youtube on how to tackle situations with difficult personalities – what the best way to speak to them. If you can find easy recommendations or links, easy access to stuff like that, it would be useful.” --- ### “Some have a go-to song – that could also help in an app situation – to take you to a different place. So, I think the app, if you go through a short series of 5 questions, then you might have the solution being either music, comedy or an audio book or whatever.” --- ### “The thing that I would probably, you’re driving a new car so something to listen to, maybe if you had some positive messages - to put something on an ipod or a podcast or something that was just a positive message.” --- ### “A bank of potential TED type talks … definitely. Podcasts or bite-size stuff, so short videos. Our attention span isn’t that long! Or things that were purely audio that you could play in the car? 100%” --- ### “I think absolutely, the potentially slightly humorous anecdotes; “Let me tell you a story…” And some positive ones as well. Still, “my worst calving – I turned up to a live cow and live calf and ended up with a dead cow and a dead calf” (I saw the farmer again a couple of weeks later and he told me he was delighted with the effort I’d put in - and I’d lost sleep over that in the interim!)” --- ### “Sometimes I’d put on the sound of raindrops or put on a podcast – something that would make me concentrate. So, I’m driving along but I’m thinking about my big toe or thumb, not thinking about that bad caesarean I’ve done. Or I might go out running so that all I can think about it getting up that hill rather than the TB reactor that I found.” --- ### “Taking your mind elsewhere away from the job is very important. Even between jobs, having podcasts, audio books, on in the car that are totally different to what I’ve been doing is important to me. To take my mind away from the frustrations and are a good distraction.” --- ### “For me it’s the realisation that this isn’t the worst thing in the world. Even having the news on and hearing of other people’s misfortune and thinking, well I’m glad I’m not them – it sounds harsh but it’s perspective.” --- ### “When I’m driving back from these things I like to turn off from it. I used to think all the time, I’m at this call now, I’m going to do this, I’m going to do that. Now, because I’ve been in practice so long, I don’t think about it, I just do it. I personally listen to podcasts about people getting murdered! True Crime. Also, certain play lists. Veterinary podcasts are definitely not for me unless I was in the mood. And I would not be in the mood if I was feeling very sad.” --- ### “Yes, that (accounts of mistakes by other vets) would definitely help and make me feel better about myself in that I’m not the only one doing mistakes … Serious (stories), then I’d feel reassured. But then, also it might be good to have funny (stories), then I could laugh about it.” --- ### “… it (on-call map), sort of would be nice for a sort of, like a potential anonymous ‘cheer up’. So that it feels that you’re not the only person in the world who’s up and about. I don’t know how it would work but I see the merit in it.” --- ### “I’ll give an example – if I was listening to the radio and it was one of those things where they’d ring in and it would be lorry drivers and things. And I always used to think, if I had the wherewithal to do it, I’d pull over and send a message to say, “hey look, I’m out and about”. Then other people would know about it. I’ve never done it, but it has crossed my mind a few times.” --- ### “Yes, the other thing (as part of the on-call map) would be like a closed social media group that you can put a post on to say, I’m out in the middle of the night and see if other people respond. Depends whether people would use something like that – an App that does it.”