De-stressing doctors - Valerie J Sutherland

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 behaviour create or exacerbate stress.