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Anxiety in the body – Anxiety in Medicine; Deconstructing our ‘Normal’
Let’s be honest, as doctors and health professionals we learn to live with anxiety in the body. Not all at once perhaps, but by degrees.
Anxiety disorders amongst doctors – the elephant in the room?
In my early teens, when on a walking safari, we were charged by an elephant.
We lived then in Zambia and this family trip was faithfully recorded on my mum’s...
Why do doctors smoke?
We all know the harms of smoking and in fact there is nothing healing about it, so why do doctors smoke?
True Resilience
The key to developing true resilience is to care for ourselves and restore our sense of innate wholeness and worth, learning to love and appreciate ourselves just for who we are and to honour our innate sensitivity, letting the wisdom of our body guide our way, each and every day.
R U OK? Day
This year, 9 September is R U OK? Day. This is an Australian initiative that was developed in 2009 by a man whose father was not OK and died by suicide.
Masks: are you wearing one?
It’s 2020. The Year of the Mask. Whether you are a medical professional or not, you will have been asked to wear them, discern their worth, determine which type is best for you, consider their real purpose and deliberate on where you stand with respect to the health benefits they may offer you personally or the population as a whole.
Giving Physicians a Private Place to Turn
For several months, I have been following news about the Physician Support Line launched by Dr. Mona Masood, a Philadelphia psychiatrist (1,2). As a longtime specialist in physician health,...
The ABC of Self-care
We are familiar with the acronym ABC when it comes to CPR, but what is the ABC of Self-care? CPR is a dramatic event that is required when we...
CrazySocks4Docs, COVID-19, and Hope
The Twitter phenomenon #CrazySocks4Docs was created by Melbourne, Australia cardiologist Dr. Geoff Toogood, who speaks and writes openly about his lived experience with anxiety and depression. CrazySocks4Docs Day is...
Physician Heal Thyself: What Medical Training and the Body have taught...
While it would be nice to pretend otherwise, I did not embark on a career in medicine for altruistic reasons, to earn a good wage or even to gain...
