The Invisible Workforce: Coaching for Caregivers, Parents, and the Chronically Unemployed
Across every society, there are people who hold up the world without much recognition: caregivers tending to aging parents, parents...
Many causes doctors champion can be more successful when we work hand in hand with the community. Community education is important, especially in cardiac arrest, where a timely response is critical. This is because every minute that the victim doesn’t get help, is 10% increase in mortality. Hence, a large part of the community education I do is about starting CPR and using an AED. #daretosaveaheart #daretosavealife
Mental Health Is a Collective Responsibility: How Organizations Can Step Up
Workplaces often treat mental health as a personal issue to be managed off-hours: “sleep more,” “take a day off,” “try...
Coaching as a Social Equalizer: Serving Low-Income and At-Risk Communities
Coaching is often framed as a private good — an investment for executives, founders, and those with surplus time and...
In the Mind of a Lay Rescuer
Responding to a Cardiac Arrest My first time performing CPR was emotionally challenging. Even traumatic. So before you go through...
Beginning Of The End Of Our DARE App
Let’s Begin At The Very Beginning Cardiac Arrest Victims Fair Poorly Due To Prolonged Downtime For many years, I realised...
Mindfulness and CPR: Part Five – Rescuers and their Stress
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) There is limited literature about psychological follow-up with lay rescuers who...
Mindfulness and CPR: Part Four – Family-witnessed resuscitation
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) Family-witnessed resuscitation Seeing one’s own family member being subject to chest...
Mindfulness and CPR: Part Three – The Mental Health Continuum
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) A note about life’s stressors As with any stressor in life,...
Mindfulness and CPR: Part Two – The bystander effect
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) What is the bystander effect? The bystander effect is a phenomenon...
Mindfulness And CPR: Part One – What Even…
By Han Ming Xuan (with thanks to Dr Jade) Why mindfulness and CPR? Hearing a word like “mindfulness” evokes such...
About Me
Still Figuring It Out
Paediatric emergency specialist and Mama to 3 teens, 3 tots, 3 dogs & a whole bunch of residents. Devour life before it devours you.
