Doctors can be deeply affected by the adverse events in their career. Staff peer support programs help to remind doctors that they are not alone.
Professional courtesy (providing free or discounted health care to doctor-patients and their families) is a long-held medical tradition. While it may lower barriers to health care, there can also be drawbacks. Open discussion about professional courtesy between the treating doctor and their doctor-patient is important.
In medicine, we’re good at showing up to do the work no matter what. But we’re far less skilled at saying, “I’m not okay.”
The World Medical Association is taking steps to put doctors’ wellbeing front and centre with a review of their Statement on Physicians’ Wellbeing, writes Professor Steve Robson.
Even before the COVID pandemic, which added significant pressure to the health-care workforce, Australian doctors experienced poor mental health at higher rates than the overall population.
50 years on from when the term was first coined, burnout continues to be a complicated and controversial phenomenon.
While there is much literature on the effects of racism on health outcomes, there is less discussion of managing the experience of interpersonal racism in daily life as a clinician. This article reflects on one clinician’s experience, highlighting strategies to mitigate the impact of interpersonal racism as a practising clinician.
If you’re eager for meaningful action on mental health in health care workplaces, you’re in great company.
As the cost of living crisis continues, more Australians are delaying their own health care due to cost, and the decline is affecting GP clinics.
