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Be resilient? what do you think I'm doing?

‘Resilience’ has become a loaded word. It is a quality everyone wants and needs, but is it right to tell doctors to be more resilient when it is their workplaces that are at fault?

Doctors' Wellbeing Seren Boyd

Not so idyllic

Stunning scenery, an apparently generous salary ... but the well-publicised vacancies on remote Scottish islands actually say much about the parlous state of rural general practice

By Jennifer Trueland 17.05.24

Be resilient? what do you think I'm doing?

‘Resilience’ has become a loaded word. It is a quality everyone wants and needs, but is it right to tell doctors to be more resilient when it is their workplaces that are at fault?

Seren Boyd 07.05.24

‘From rescuer to coach’

Serious concerns about her own wellbeing led GP Katharine Jones to come to an important realisation. She tells Jennifer Trueland how she has embraced lifestyle medicine, encouraging patients to take responsibility for improving their health.

Jennifer Trueland 21.03.24

You're welcome

The Republic of Ireland offers a very different experience to working in the NHS. UK doctors who have made the move say they feel welcomed and valued, but warn it is no utopia. Ben Ireland reports

Ben Ireland 19.03.24

The exam question

When it’s mandatory to take postgraduate exams, why does the cost fall on doctors already suffering from years of pay erosion?

Ben Ireland 16.01.24

Lives cut short

A new impetus to reduce suicide should include urgent improvements to workplace culture, as well as help with the cost of living

Peter Blackburn 28.11.23

Taking the strain

Pressures on doctors and other NHS staff have never been greater, and yet occupational health services can be ‘patchy’, and specialist care hard to access. Tim Tonkin hears the urgent need for a comprehensive and high-quality service.

Tim Tonkin 14.09.23

Lessons from a fragile life

Doctors recently told us how close encounters with their own mortality had changed their attitudes to life and work. It’s a subject into which deafblind medical student Alexandra Adams has a huge amount of insight, owing to a range of complex medical conditions. She says patients who have been through ICU need more support

Alexandra Adams 12.09.23
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