Tag: healthcare
Why bring love into medicine?
The words love and medicine are rarely used in the same sentence. Not many people say they love taking their medicine. Not many doctors...
When doctors make mistakes
Doctors make mistakes. No-one really likes to admit it or think about it or talk about it, but it happens all the time.
We 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...
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...
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...
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...
Dr: Do two little letters define you?
Have you ever stopped to consider who you are or what defines you?
Is your self-worth or self-esteem wrapped up in those two little letters...
Do we really need our doctors to be resilient?
When we think of the word ‘resilience’ it conjures up certain meanings, i.e. that no matter what is thrown at you, you can ‘handle...
Wounded healers
It’s a late Friday evening in New York and Dr Michael Myers is finishing up the paperwork for his last patient as he takes...
