Tag: doctors’ health
Harnessing Grief Into Action: A Tribute to a Remarkable Woman
Dr. Sangeeta Mahajan is a remarkable woman. She is a consultant anesthetist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. She lost her 20-year-old son, Saagar...
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 Bartone, spoke of it at...
The Magnitude of Lived Experience
This is a dispatch from Down Under. I’ve been here lecturing for the past couple of weeks on physician health and suicide prevention. On May 31, I was a...
Courage in the Face of Heartbreaking Loss
After my plenary lecture at the International Practitioner Health Summit “The Wounded Healer” in London last October, I was invited to sit in on a bereavement group which was...
A knock on the door
30 years ago, a young doctor in overwhelm had planned to kill himself. He is now the President of a specialist College and wrote recently of his despair and...
Shame and Imposter Syndrome – a Cause of Doctor Distress?
A high proportion of our doctors are distressed – are shame and Imposter Syndrome contributing?
Shame has been identified as a risk factor for physician suicide, and that is but...
Can we truly care for other people without caring for ourselves?
I used to think I was a clever person, but the way I lived my life when I was younger was not so clever, as I did not care...
“Physician, heal thyself” does not mean treat yourself
“Physician, heal thyself”
The Bible, Luke 4.23 (King James Version).
We as doctors are fond of treating ourselves, citing the old proverb, “Physician, heal thyself” as our justification. But ‘heal thyself’...
