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When you are stressed most of the time you won’t be able to work so efficiently. 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. 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. 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.’ Sometimes you may feel as if you are being consumed by all the things you have to do: as if “Medicine’ is eating you up! 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 [...] Are you overwhelmed with the amount of work you have to do in your day to day life as a doctor? Delegating is OK in theory but sometimes you find yourself doing jobs which are not really in your remit. It’s too easy to start to feel sorry for other members of the team who [...] Medicine can take over your life so that you find you are putting off doing important things in your life until some mythical time when you’re not so busy. However small the first step, decide what it is, and do it. Once you start a task it’s easier to continue. Some of the overwhelm of a busy medical job can be helped by using some of the simple techniques in this video: |
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