Kathleen Ferguson, reflects on the importance of rest and urges more NHS trusts to help “fight fatigue” […]
Wellbeing
What we don’t talk about when we talk about professionalism: Resilience
Medical students now all have to have formal resilience training. But is resilience a trainable skill? […]
Joseph S Machta: Why I . . . wear an eye mask on the tube
Doctors’ working conditions should reflect the need for rest in order to provide a safe service to patients at night, says Joseph S Machta […]
“Care Under Pressure”: How can we achieve wellbeing at work for doctors?
Stories of doctors taking their own lives have attracted much media attention in recent years. These stories highlight how pressing and critical the issue of achieving wellbeing at work for […]
Looking after ourselves at work: The importance of being hydrated and fed
Hospitals should remove any barriers to doctors eating and drinking during the working day […]
Greta McLachlan: Please put your oxygen mask on first before helping others
If we don’t look after ourselves then we will be no good at looking after our patients, says Greta McLachlan […]
Edward Ridyard: Charging for hospital car parking risks demoralising the NHS workforce
The NHS is run on goodwill, yet unfair car parking charges show a thorough disregard for staff […]
Mei Wen: To grieve is to maintain empathy
In medicine, we walk the fine line between life and death every day. Students and doctors need to be given training and emotional space so that they can cope with […]
Walking in each other’s kingdom: A GP-consultant exchange scheme
The experience of observing a colleague in a different specialty can rekindle compassion for them and improves collaboration, say Adam Fraser, Sally Ross, and Pritti Aggarwal […]
Michael Myers: The complexity of physician suicide
Physicians take their own lives when many diverse and overwhelming forces come together all at once—a perfect storm of biopsychosocial factors. There is no one reason why a physician might […]