Many healthcare workers will have health conditions or personal circumstances that make them more vulnerable to covid-19. The private dilemmas they face should be openly discussed, argues Utpal Sandesara […]
Wellbeing
The healing garden lost to corporate healthcare
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul – John Muir It has […]
Rose Olson: Covid-19 could motivate more resident physicians to unionize
How can residents have their rights protected in times of crisis? Rose Olson looks to labor organizing efforts for some answers […]
Steven Chau: Who will heal the healers? The psychological aftermath of covid-19
Hong Kong’s experience in the aftermath of the 2003 SARS outbreak is an indication of the psychological impact this pandemic will have on healthcare workers, argues Steven Chau […]
How can we keep a cool head and warm heart in the face of covid-19?
Lucy Harrison explores how doctors can keep calm and look after themselves during the covid-19 pandemic […]
Covid-19: channelling our emotions during the current crisis
This pandemic has seen each of us needing to adapt to new ways of living working. What was familiar, in our personal and professional lives, has changed almost overnight. Doctors, […]
Covid-19: Junior doctors are worried about their physical and mental health
Rachel Scott, Rory Heath, and Emilie Lostis explore how trainees are feeling at this time of change and uncertainty […]
Love in the time of corona: putting the health and wellbeing of the healthcare workforce at the heart of the pandemic response
“The physician’s challenge is the curing of disease, educating people in the laws of health, and preventing the spread of plagues and pestilences.” — William Osler FRCP There has never been […]
Extraordinary times: coping psychologically through the impact of covid-19
Covid-19 is changing our ways of working. It is also affecting the psychological health of staff. While individual doctors react differently to the crisis, we are already observing characteristic patterns […]
Looking after doctors’ mental wellbeing during the covid-19 pandemic
Kevin Teoh and Gail Kinman share ways that doctors can look after themselves during the covid-19 pandemic While organisational and systems factors are major contributors to poor mental wellbeing, individual […]