Who do you get support from?

Counsellors are always supported by regular supervision form someone there to  help them to sort out what issues come up for them are to do with the client and what is  their own stuff.  Once you’ve experienced this support, it is difficult to know how you managed without it. It is not to do with [...]

Doctor, start to look after yourself!

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you are considering leaving Medicine…

Thinking of retiring or leaving Medicine?  Please join my Facebook group Life After Medicine to discuss the challenges of this transition.

Look after yourself as well as your patients

Here is a recent article from Hospital Doctor:
Look after yourself as well as your patients
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Read the introduction to my new book

Read more about my latest book on www.lifeaftermedicine.co.uk
For a brief taster right click here:
Introduction to Life After Medicine

Overweight doctors, nurses and the US Surgeon General

Overweight doctors, nurses and the US Surgeon General
What do you think of this article?
Are you an overweight doctor and how do you cope with advice to obese patients?
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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 [...]