Tag: doctors

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...

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...

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...

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...

I woke early this morning, thinking about an article written by a young female surgeon (1) I had read recently, and I could not...

After my plenary lecture at the International Practitioner Health Summit “The Wounded Healer” in London last October, I was invited to sit in on...

Have you ever considered how often you do things just to fit in, to go along with friends or family, even though you feel...

I am a doctor and everything I know about food that is worth knowing, I learnt somewhere other than medical school. We learn so...

 “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...

We hear a lot about self-care these days and think it is probably something we ought to do. We think it has to do with diet, exercise and rest, perhaps with the odd massage and glass of wine thrown in, but true self-care is much deeper than this. In truth, self-care requires a foundation of love and appreciation, for all of who we are.