A surgeon’s paradoxical lesson for journalists to survive the news
Unlike others, journalists have a tough time getting away from the news — but there happens to be a seemingly precarious way to do it
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In an episode of the TV show Elementary, a surgeon prepares to perform a surgery. After he dons his gloves and mask, with his students watching from the back, he plays some funny music from speakers. The students are pleasantly surprised. The surgeon turns around and tells them that they will need to learn to take performing surgeries easy. That they should not let ‘it’ get to them. What he means is that if a surgeon puts herself under pressure because a life is at stake, she could make more mistakes and further endanger that life.The protagonist in the Tamil film Doctor stands for a similar idea, and it taught me something about remaining a journalist. Journalism done properly can exact a particular psychological toll.
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