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 [...]

Are you a better doctor if…?

Are you a better doctor if you’ve experienced the illness or condition your patient has? I’ve wondered about this for years! Can a man know what it’s like to give birth, for example, and does experiencing this make a female doctor a better obstetrician as a result?
Can an overweight doctor give believable advice to a [...]

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.

Relaxation and refreshment

Sometimes the best way to sort things out which are worrying you or stress related is to ‘get away from it all’ even for a day or two.  By being in another  environment away from whatever causes your stress can make a huge difference to your mind set and enables you to make the decisions [...]

Being a doctor and having a life too

What stops you having  a more balanced life?
Is it fear? Or is it lack of clarity about what a more balanced life would be for you? Have you heard the exression ‘get out of the box’? You have to ‘get out of the box’ to make the changes you want. But here is the conundrum: [...]

Doctors want better work-life balance

Think back over the last few weeks and ask yourself what you’ve
done apart from Work. If you are finding that Medicine is taking
over nearly 100% of your life then it’s time to call a halt to your
lifestyle and work out ways to get it to be more balanced.
What does a balanced life mean for you? [...]