Tag: self-care
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 us, and when we do,...
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 before our own. We think...
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...
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...
Sleep – our daily medicine
Sleep is something that many of us struggle with, and this struggle can affect our whole day, or sleep can be part of our daily medicine.
We may think we...
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 ‘Dr’?
How would you feel if...
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...
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 it’. That you are tough...
The importance of having your own doctor – even when you...
As doctors, we have a tendency to diagnose and treat ourselves when we become ill, which is understandable, but this can get us into awful trouble, and we cannot...
