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 a spreadsheet when you change one thing, since everything is interconnected and dependent on each other,everything else changes. However small the thing that changes there will be a ripple effect on other things because everything is interconnected.

Changing something in one area of your life will effect other areas of your life. You could change something at home or at work and the thing you change could be as simple as  tidying some cupboards and throwing away some clutter, those things you no longer need. Doing this  seems to create some space, not only literally physical space, but also metaphorically, emotional space. for new things to come into your life.

So if you are feeling frustrated by your lack of progress in achieving whatever it is that you want in your life, try a different approach: Continue reading Can you change your life?

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? Continue reading Are you a better doctor if…?

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 [...]

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 Continue reading Relaxation and refreshment

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 Continue reading Being a doctor and having a life too

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 Continue reading Doctors want better work-life balance