Dr Anne Malatt
Anne has been a doctor for 40 years and an eye surgeon for over 30 years. She loves her work, her patients, teaching and writing, for she loves people and life. Anne feels great joy in being able to share her lived experience and wisdom, that other people may learn and grow and return to being the All that we all are.
Self-care when the doctor is the patient
It is well known that doctors generally make terrible patients. We self-diagnose, self-treat, delay getting help from an appropriately trained person who is not...
True care – it starts with us
We are often taught in life that it is selfish to care for ourselves, and that we need to put the needs of others...
Doctors’ Health – attending to our own
I recently attended the national Australian Medical Association (AMA) conference, where the importance of doctors’ health was a major focus.
Our current President, Dr Tony...
How do we deal with the challenges of being a doctor...
Doctors spend a long time training to be doctors. It takes at least 10-15 years to complete our training, which means we are usually...
Breathe your own breath
Breathe your own breath … what on earth does that mean?
We breathe, in and out, all the time … but how aware are we...
Top tips for dealing with ‘Mother guilt’
I am an ex-superwoman. I learned my special powers from my mother, who was an actual superwoman – she worked full-time as a doctor,...
Self-care – not just another doing, but a quality of being
There is a lot of talk about self-care these days and we tend to picture it as something that we would like to do...
Reform is needed for unaccredited registrars
The plight of unaccredited registrars has recently been in the news here with the shocking story of a young female registrar who finally left...
Being a woman
In medicine, I am seen as a woman at times when it suits some agendas, and not seen as a woman when it does...
Do doctors have post-traumatic stress from their training?
I woke early this morning, thinking about an article written by a young female surgeon (1) I had read recently, and I could not...
