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Collaborative Blessing

When nurses tell me to do something, I try to follow their advice.

So, when I was seeing patients in the ED yesterday, and nurses said to me, “You’ve got to check out the covered bridge,” I paid a visit on a beautiful, 75^o sunny day.

Originally built in 1830, it is a national historic landmark.  It has been rebuilt four times after being destroyed by flooding in 1832, 1857, and 1987, a tribute to the resilience of local citizens.

As I wrote in Collaborative Resilience, resilience embodies the ability to adapt  to adversity, problems, and setbacks and the power to reinvent oneself as circumstances change.  We strengthen our ability to adapt by accepting the inevitability of change, keeping events in perspective, and seeing ourselves as part of a larger movement.

I felt the beneficiary of a collaborative blessing to be notified by nurses of this bridge’s existence, to have time to see this example of local resilience despite being on call, and to have such a beautiful day to photograph it.

As always, I welcome your input to improve healthcare collaboration.

Kenneth H. Cohn

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