COVID-19 has been wild, hey? I’ve been remarkably impressed by your maturity. Your progress along a challenging training pathway has been turned upside down; changes to classes, to clinical exposure, to assessment. I worked with multiple year levels of students in 2020 and you’ve all been remarkably resilient and transparent. The transition into (and potentially […]
Category: Wellbeing
Doctor vs. Prisoner
Doctors are fairly well known for occasionally (often) being challenging (obnoxious) to deal with. This has been attributed to the stress of the job, the culture/climate and, well, our personalities. Much has been made of the hierarchical nature of medicine and how that pervades training. Although I do just like that article’s title, it’s certainly […]
Anecdotes
There has been a lot of talk recently about the challenges in maintaining a positive perspective about your job in medicine. Whilst I must declare my bias and admit to being a fan of administrative processes, there’s certainly no doubting that the (mythical) work-life balance is being affected. Today was a day for talking about […]