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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Are these the biggest 12 challenges for doctors today?

Goal setting: Setting goals: Vital to set SMART goals so you can be very clear about what you want. Work life Balance: Balancing work and life – there is more to life than work. Managing time – essential for making … Continue reading

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Group support for doctors?

Many people find joining a group for support through change is beneficial. Would a group for doctors who want your lives to be much, much better also work? It might be useful for doctors who: have read about personal development … Continue reading

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Just do what you really want to do…

Have you got some brilliant ideas which you think might revolutionise the way you, your colleagues or the whole health service might work? Is there a bit of an entrepreneur in you? If you’ve always had a yearning to do … Continue reading

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Doctors need support as much as other people

What do you do if you feel that you can’t cope with a situation? Perhaps other people are making suggestions to help you but you don’t listen because you don’t like the idea of asking for help from someone else. … Continue reading

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