In a health care climate where patients are ever more demanding and resources increasingly difficult to access, it is a truism that stress is an inevitable part of the profession of the medical practitioner. Stressed doctors become ill and dissatisfied, and in consequence patients may also suffer. Eliminating a source of stress is acknowledged as the most effective approach to stress control, but this is not always a realistic option for doctors. This invaluable guide shows doctors how to effectively manage their stress, ...
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In a health care climate where patients are ever more demanding and resources increasingly difficult to access, it is a truism that stress is an inevitable part of the profession of the medical practitioner. Stressed doctors become ill and dissatisfied, and in consequence patients may also suffer. Eliminating a source of stress is acknowledged as the most effective approach to stress control, but this is not always a realistic option for doctors. This invaluable guide shows doctors how to effectively manage their stress, before they become distressed. The authors also acknowledge that doctors do not work in a social vacuum, and address the management, business and social positions doctors are expected to fulfil, in addition to their clinical role. De-stressing Doctors: a Self-management Guide will help every doctor to become their own stress manager by integrating stress control techniques into the day-to-day profession of medical practitioner. Drawing upon their extensive experience of stress control strategies for the medical profession, the authors offer an extremely practical, three-fold approach to the subject: Awareness - increase your self-awareness to understand stress among medical practitioners; why and how it causes harm. Analysis - learn how to identify and measure the stress that can lead to poor quality of life, ill health or poor job performance. Action - strategies include: Time management - including how to recognise and avoid 'burnout' and how to identify 'time-wasters' Ways of creating a more effective and stress-free medical practice environment Promoting understanding of the relationship between behaviour and stress and why certain patterns of behavior create or exacerbate stress.
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Fine. Book Shows doctors "how to effectively manage their stress, before they become distressed", offering a three-fold approach to the subject: awareness, analysis, and action, and helping the reader to integrate stress control techniques into the day-to-day profession of the medical practitioner.
