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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 [...] Thinking of retiring or leaving Medicine? Please join my Facebook group Life After Medicine to discuss the challenges of this transition. Here is a recent article from Hospital Doctor: 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. 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. 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. Read more about my latest book on www.lifeaftermedicine.co.uk 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 [...] Part of looking after yourself is about finding the right person to support you through some difficult decisions. 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.’ |
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