De-Stressing Doctors: A Self-Management Guide

by Valerie J. Sutherland

In a health care climate where patients are ever more demanding and resources increasingly difficult to access, it is a truism that stress is an inevitable part of the profession of the medical practitioner. Stressed doctors become ill and dissatisfied, and in consequence patients may also suffer. Eliminating a source of stress is acknowledged as the most effective approach to stress control, but this is not always a realistic option for doctors.

This invaluable guide shows doctors how to effectively manage their stress, before they become distressed.

The authors also acknowledge that doctors do not work in a social vacuum, and address the management, business and social positions doctors are expected to fulfil, in addition to their clinical role.

De-stressing Doctors: a Self-management Guide will help every doctor to become their own stress manager by integrating stress control techniques into the day-to-day profession of medical practitioner.Drawing upon their extensive experience of stress control strategies for the medical profession, the authors offer an extremely practical, three-fold approach to the subject: Awareness - increase your self-awareness to understand stress among medical practitioners; why and how it causes harm. Analysis - learn how to identify and measure the stress that can lead to poor quality of life, ill health or poor job performance. Action - strategies include: Time management - including how to recognise and avoid 'burnout' and how to identify 'time-wasters' Ways of creating a more effective and stress-free medical practice environment Promoting understanding of the relationship between behaviour and stress and why certain patterns of behavior create or exacerbate stress.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750687835
• ISBN13: 9780750687836
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"