Doctors: be less stressed when driving

When you are stressed most of the time you won’t be able to work so efficiently.
Driving is stressful. If you have to drive to hospital or clinic each day you may be more stressed than someone who doesn’t drive at all. Sitting in traffic jams, keeping alert even if you’ve had a late night on [...]

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 [...]

Time management tip: to-do list

Time management is one of the challenges of modern day living.  One way to organise your time more effectively is by writing down your to-do list.
Notice I used the words: ‘write down.’  Some people believe so long as you keep what needs to be done in your head you can easily get everything done.
But you [...]

Stress management metaphor

Stress management is about lightening an unwanted heavy load. When you carry a lot of stress around with you all day you might talk of having a ‘load on your mind.’
Imagine if your worries were rocks which you carried in a rucksack on your back and every time you met put another [...]

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 [...]

Stop Procrastination

Medicine can take over your life so that you find you are putting off doing important things in your life until some mythical time when you’re not so busy. However small the first step, decide what it is, and do it. Once you start a task it’s easier to continue.
Yes of course [...]

Managing stress

Some of the overwhelm of a busy medical job can be helped by using some of the simple techniques in this video:
http://bit.ly/YgppN What are your top tips for managing stress from your medical job? Please share yours.