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Do doctors need Coaching?
Top athletes and singers have coaches: do you need one? Interesting article in New York Times by Atul Gawande
Doctor, improve your coaching skills
Coaching is a way of enabling people to find their own solutions to their challenges and so it’s always useful improve your coaching skills and use them as much as possible. As a doctor you may need to be prescriptive … Continue reading
Life for doctors – don’t neglect the rest…
If you’ve been through years of medical training, passed your exams and become a doctor, ask yourself whether you are a doctor for life and discover for yourself how much of you is now wrapped up in your identity as … Continue reading
A doctors life: what to be grateful for?
I experienced a doctor’s life for many years, in spite of the heavy work load the frustration and the exhaustion which went along with it, I am grateful for certain aspects of the life of doctors. I know now that … Continue reading
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Doctor, remember to look after yourself too
Every time you are busy seeing patients in your clinic or surgery you have to recall a wealth of information about them, their condition and about what you can do to help to diagnose and treat their illness. You may … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching Doctors
Tagged coaching doctors, making changes, work-life balance
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Does Coaching Work For Doctors?
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Does coaching work for doctors?Coaching can enable doctors to find their own way forward to a more balanced and happier life. This is what coaching can do for you if you are a doctor who is wondering about coaching and … Continue reading
What can you do?
What to do to have a more balanced life as a doctor: 1. Stop taking physical documents, patient’s files and journals with you in order to catch up during the evening or weekend. Instead just leave the files, the work … Continue reading
Taking work home with you
A very common challenge amongst doctors who strive for a more balanced life is how to stop taking work home with them. There are at least three ways work doesn’t stay in the hospital or clinic and ends up going … Continue reading
Leaving or staying in Medicine?
Not so much the patients themselves or even the mental challenge of taking their history, doing the examination, arranging appropriate investigations and deciding on the best treatment, but more the aggravation of too much to do in the day, the … Continue reading
Gifts to give yourself
For the independent medical practitioner who appears to ‘have it all’ but knows that there is something missing here are some gifts to give yourself: rewards for your dedication and hard work, for the personal sacrifices you’ve made while building … Continue reading
