Doctor, start to look after yourself!

Now is the right time to improve the quality of your life so that you have time for family as well as patients.  More time to enjoy being away from work doing things you haven’t done for years, like going for a walk, a cycle ride, reading a book, painting, writing, any other almost forgotten [...]

If you are considering leaving Medicine…

Thinking of retiring or leaving Medicine?  Please join my Facebook group Life After Medicine to discuss the challenges of this transition.

Look after yourself as well as your patients

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Look after yourself as well as your patients
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Can you change your life?

After a busy night on call or an endless clinic with people making huge demands of you, you may be feeling a mixture of exhaustion, emotionally drained and wonder if you could ever make significant changes to your life and still be a doctor.
Think of your medical life as being like a spreadsheet. Just like [...]

Listen to your body

Your body can communicate with you in ways which your head may not. It can be very helpful or useful to notice what happens to your body.
These are emotions which you may not have thought come from your body as much if not more than from your head. When you feel sad, for example, your [...]

Prescription for doctors who want more time

Reclaim time for yourself, during evenings and weekends – you are important and having time for yourself is vital. So when you begin to free up time set goals just for you, and do things you’ve missed while you’ve been so busy.
Speed up tasks by making simple changes -even quite simple changes will make a [...]

Read the introduction to my new book

Read more about my latest book on www.lifeaftermedicine.co.uk
For a brief taster right click here:
Introduction to Life After Medicine

Work life balance: what can you do?

Sometimes, being a doctor and trying to find a good work life balance can seem to be not only impossible to achieve but also very stressful. Both you and others may wonder how you keep going with so much to do and so little time to do it. It seems as though having managing [...]

Coaching doctors

Part of looking after yourself is about finding the right person to support you through some difficult decisions.
It can be a huge leap out of your comfort zone to make that  first contact with a coach: you may think that by so doing you are  admitting not being able to find the way forward yourself.
Not [...]

Is Medicine different?

Doctors are often told what to do next in their career progression.’You should apply for this job, rather than that job,’ colleagues may say to you, or ‘you should get that qualification, which means taking that training course,’ or ‘you won’t get anywhere these days unless you do some research.’
You don’t want to do any [...]