Tips on how to be a more effective doctor

Would you like to find out how to relax more often and as a result be a more effective  doctor? Some days the work seems overwhelming. As soon as you finish with one thing there is another patient to see, another phone call to answer and another Continue reading Tips on how to be a more effective doctor

Breathing to relieve stress

When you are stressed and angry or frustrated about a situation you may forget about the various self help methods for stress management. Anyway most of them won’t be practical to do in the actual moment when the stress is happening.  Exercise can help tremendously but not always a practical thing to start running away from a situation. No, exercise is something to do in an ongoing way.
However there is one technique you can use when the stress is actually occurring Continue reading Breathing to relieve stress

Listen to your body

Your body can communicate with you in ways which your head may not. It can be very helpful or useful to notice what happens to your body. These are emotions which you may not have thought come from your body as much if not more than from Continue reading Listen to your body

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