Why are we so ready to criticise colleagues?

We’re encouraged to develop empathy for our patients. Why can’t we be empathetic towards each other?

Why, even with hindsight, do we tend to assume that we would have done better?

I thought about all this again when we heard of the non-custodial sentencing of the police officer who used his taser on a 95-year-old lady with dementia who was brandishing a steak knife in an aged care facility.

He’d been called the Yallambee Lodge aged care home in the early hours of Wednes­day, 17 May 2023 because the frail, 47 kg Clare Nowland was brandishing a knife.