Description
The second edition of this well-received text advocates for a transformational change in the way doctors protect their mental health, look out for their colleagues, co-create a kinder, more humane work culture and lead health system reform. Offering practical strategies and real solutions, based both on medical literature and the wisdom of experienced doctors, the new edition reimagines healthcare, where every doctor is encouraged and supported to:
- Prioritise psychological wellbeing and physical protection
- Promote healthy workplace cultures, fairness and safety
- Build strong relationships by sharing challenges
- Save lives through medical co-leadership
- Rediscover the joy in medicine
Brimming with poignant and hopeful stories and quotes from a diverse array of doctors from many different specialities and at all career stages, the book is a celebration of the growing global interconnectedness and the changing face of the medical profession. An invaluable support and companion for those in the early years of medicine, Every Doctor is a must-read for all doctors across all specialties and wherever they practise in the world, because exemplary care of patients, peers, profession and self is a lifelong journey.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Every Doctor prioritising psychological and physical protection first
1. Re-writing personal stories of hope
2. Staying mentally strong under pressure
3. Making time for what matters most
4. Reassessing goals in all dimensions of life
5. Rethinking optimism with self compassion
6. Preventing and managing burnout
7. Sleeping well naturally night or day
8. Nurturing loving relationships at home
9. Trusting our own treating doctor
Part 2: Every Doctor promoting healthy workplace cultures, fairness and safety
10. Co-creating kinder cultures and clinical teams
11. Responding to challenging interactions with patients
12. Learning from mistakes, complaints and clinical incidents
13. Calling out conscious and unconscious biases
14. Eliminating discrimination, racism, sexual harassment, and bullying
15. Confronting Narcissistic Personality Disorder
16. Preventing and managing patient initiated violence
Part 3: Every Doctor building strong relationships by sharing challenges
17. Mentoring every junior doctor
18. Preventing and identifying mental injury
19. Reducing mental illness stigma
20. Helping colleagues seek early mental health care
21. Improving every doctors’ mental health literacy
22. Supporting colleagues with mental illness
23. Learning from loss, grief and serious physical illness
Part 4: Every Doctor saving lives through medical co-leadership
24. Making medical organisations work for us
25. Practising leadership values and ethics
26. Advocating through publishing and public speaking
27. Honouring inspirational stories of medical co-leadership
28. In conclusion
Index
