Category: Doctors’ health

Sep 15 2014

Doctors’ mental health

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Prof Jim Lucey is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director at St. Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. He is a keynote speaker at this week’s International Conference on Physicians’...

Sep 13 2014

Doctors' health

Looking out for each other

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Trisha Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Health Care and Dean for Research Impact at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK The Professor of Trauma Surgery...

Aug 26 2014

Doctors' health

Hearing lost and regained: a professional and personal experience

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Dr Andrew Dunlop is a General Practitioner in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK As a doctor, to be quite honest, I never really thought about how hearing loss would affect a person’s...

Aug 26 2014

Doctors' health

Doctors’ Health: overcoming our Great Expectations and pathological self-reliance

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Dr Andrée Rochfort is Director of Quality Improvement at the Irish College of General Practitioners, Dublin I frequently wonder how we can best prepare young doctors for their future medical roles...

Aug 15 2014

Doctors' health

It really was that bad, but I came back

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Declan Fox is a Family Doctor in Tignish PEI (that’s Prince Edward Island, Canada, for international readers) How did I get here? With apologies to Talking Heads, I wonder...

Aug 14 2014

Doctors' health

Physician as patient

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Richard Roberts is Professor and past Head of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is immediate past president of...