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 [...]

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 [...]

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 your head. When you feel sad, for example, your [...]

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 [...]

Get things done

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!
If you have a long list of things you want to get done on your ‘to do’  list,  which never seems to get any smaller, you could try this easy way [...]

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 [...]

Improve your time management skills

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 [...]

Stop Procrastination

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.
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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.