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As a profession, medicine is beginning to be aware that we must care for the whole person, if we are to truly practise the art and science of our...

A recent systematic literature review of physician suicide confirmed that doctors now have the highest suicide rate of any profession and stated that: "It's very surprising that the suicide rate among...

‘Resilience’ is the latest buzz word and ‘must have’ training for doctors. The General Medical Council in the UK wants ‘emotional resilience’ training for medical students so that tomorrow’s...

I always found it really stressful to be on call for emergencies, until I learned a different way to deal with the tension of being on call. Working ridiculous hours We...

We are all part of the ‘system’. In truth, we are part of several living systems, which form a complete and interconnected whole. As doctors, we have been trained to...

Sometimes in medicine, as in life, things don’t go according to plan – our sphere of life gets bent out of shape, or goes pear-shaped, as we say. But no matter what we do, or don’t do, or what happens to us or through us, we are all still people, worthy of love and care.

THERE has recently been a move to bring medical education under a centralised umbrella.(1) With this comes a move to increase the powers of the Australian Health Practitioner Registration...

What is burnout? In the world of cars, a burnout is the practice of keeping a vehicle stationary and spinning its wheels, causing the tires to heat up and smoke...

Doctors are generally acknowledged to be intelligent. We are trained to care for the human body, and are considered the experts on it and how to take care of...

Western medicine is the modern model of healthcare, but is it supporting our collective wellbeing? The roots of medicine are ancient, going back to the time of Hippocrates and Plato and beyond, to a time when physicians were healers, scientists, philosophers and deeply religious people, who cared for the whole health and wellbeing of themselves and those they lived to serve.