Tag: doctors
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...
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 in our thirties, at least,...
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 to reward ourselves or relieve...
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 go back to sleep. I...
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...
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...
Fitting in – is it really worth it?
Have you ever considered how often you do things just to fit in, to go along with friends or family, even though you feel that fitting in is something...
6000 signatures: doctors call for the release of children held in...
Many in the Australian medical profession would endorse the views of Dr Karen Phelps, GP, past president of the AMA and newly elected independent member for Wentworth, when she...
Food is medicine, so why do doctors know so little about...
I am a doctor and everything I know about food that is worth knowing, I learnt somewhere other than medical school. We learn so much in medical school, but...
Grace Under Pressure – Medicine in the Spotlight
Last night, together with our students and some staff we read the play Grace under Pressure. This is a powerful verbatim theatre work by David Williams and Paul Dwyer,...
