Would you like to be an even more exhausted doctor than you are already?
Here are some hints and well tried tips so you can become so tired that you eventually have to stop because you will be unable to find enough energy to continue.
When that happens you will have to rest, like it or not.
The trouble may be that your enforced rest might well be combined with illness of one sort or another perhaps physical and well as emotional.
However if that is the lifestyle you wish to lead here is how to get to that state as quickly as possible:
- Insist on doing everything yourself because no-one else can do it as well as you can.
- On no account ever delegate anything.
- If possible take on someone else’s work as well as your own: for example you could do some filing or see a few of your colleague’s patients in addition to your own busy list.
- Always agree to have extra patients fitted in to your clinic, never mind how urgent they are, if they want to see you then let them.
- Take as long as possible with every patient, going over all the options and telling them every possible side effect of each option.
- Never bring the consultation to a natural end when you have finished discussing what might be their problem. You can always keep talking about something, anything which will lengthen the conversation considerably.
- Offer to visit them at home if they would like you to even if they are capable of coming to see you in your clinic.
- Never take any time off for lunch or other breaks. You never need to have a break of any sort and believe its a waste of time having anything to eat during the day.
- Arrive early and leave late there is always plenty for you to do.
- Since you never ever take a holiday make sure you take on all your colleagues’ work too when they are away.
Follow these suggestions fully and you will soon find that you are unable to have any sort of a life outside of work.
However if you have already done this and wondered what life be like if you had something to do away from work then don’t despair – if you do something else today you can begin to make a difference and strike a balance between work and the rest of life if you are willing to give it a try.
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I think that this may be what I am doing currently! I suspect too that many other doctors are the same.
Why ? It may be something of the culture of the environment in which we are thrown early on in our medical experience. I would suggest that exposure to areas such as General Practice early on in medical careers may bang on the head such unhealthy ideas. GPs work very hard but have as a specialty been at the forefront of more sensible ways of working. Of course whilst drs of my generation may have done Surgery and Medicine as pre-reg jobs newer drs may have done all sorts of different specialties early on in their medical work.
Perhaps this culture is towards its end…………
We owe it to ourselves and indeed our patients.
Gd wishes