The Doctors Coach

Doctors: be less stressed when driving

Susan Kersley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:47:59 +0000

When you are stressed most of the time you won’t be able to work so efficiently. Driving is stressful. If you have to drive to hospital or clinic each day you may be more stressed than someone who doesn’t drive at all. Sitting in traffic jams, keeping alert even if you’ve had a late night on [...]

Meterorite strikes doctors office!

Susan Kersley — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:34:07 +0000

What are the odds of this happening? CLICK HERE Meterorite strikes doctors office! was first posted on January 24, 2010 at 9:34 am.©2009 "The Doctors Coach". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact [...]

If you are considering leaving Medicine…

Susan Kersley — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:51:45 +0000

Thinking of retiring or leaving Medicine? Please join my Facebook group Life After Medicine to discuss the challenges of this transition. If you are considering leaving Medicine… was first posted on January 24, 2010 at 3:51 am.©2009 "The Doctors Coach". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this [...]

Look after yourself as well as your patients

Susan Kersley — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:37:22 +0000

Here is a recent article from Hospital Doctor: Look after yourself as well as your patients Posted using ShareThis Look after yourself as well as your patients was first posted on January 22, 2010 at 5:37 am.©2009 "The Doctors Coach". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in [...]

Can you change your life?

Susan Kersley — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:43:20 +0000

After a busy night on call or an endless clinic with people making huge demands of you, you may be feeling a mixture of exhaustion, emotionally drained and wonder if you could ever make significant changes to your life and still be a doctor. Think of your medical life as being like a spreadsheet. Just like [...]

Listen to your body

Susan Kersley — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:08:11 +0000

Your body can communicate with you in ways which your head may not. It can be very helpful or useful to notice what happens to your body. These are emotions which you may not have thought come from your body as much if not more than from your head. When you feel sad, for example, your [...]

Time management tip: to-do list

Susan Kersley — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:55:20 +0000

Time management is one of the challenges of modern day living. One way to organise your time more effectively is by writing down your to-do list. Notice I used the words: ‘write down.’ Some people believe so long as you keep what needs to be done in your head you can easily get everything done. But you [...]

Stress management metaphor

Susan Kersley — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:46:11 +0000

Stress management is about lightening an unwanted heavy load. When you carry a lot of stress around with you all day you might talk of having a ‘load on your mind.’ Imagine if your worries were rocks which you carried in a rucksack on your back and every time you met put another [...]

Get things done

Susan Kersley — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:44:02 +0000

Sometimes you may feel as if you are being consumed by all the things you have to do: as if “Medicine’ is eating you up! If you have a long list of things you want to get done on your ‘to do’ list, which never seems to get any smaller, you could try this easy way [...]

Prescription for doctors who want more time

Susan Kersley — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:30:27 +0000

Reclaim time for yourself, during evenings and weekends – you are important and having time for yourself is vital. So when you begin to free up time set goals just for you, and do things you’ve missed while you’ve been so busy. Speed up tasks by making simple changes -even quite simple changes will make a [...]