Physicians and medical students face both stimulating and stressful challenges. While stress is normal, if unrelieved it can progress to distress, illness, and even death. Resilience refers to the ability to absorb the shock of these stresses and bounce...
Burnout, a work-related syndrome characterized by emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, is common among physicians and medical students, especially women. Depression is less common but physicians and medical students often minimize or ignore symptoms...
Healthcare is based on a business model of efficiency. However, the work we do as physicians on a daily basis is about relationships. These relationships may be with the self, other, and Other (e.g., god goddess, Buddha, Allah, Mother Nature, Love, Light.)...
Anxiety refers to a range of experiences resulting from the worry or fear of something. Anxiety can be a normal reaction to circumstances, an exaggerated response, or a pathological condition. You can use your own patterns of experiencing stress as a...
Family physicians are specialist physicians who have an important and critical role in our health and wellness. As such, they have an opportunity to provide medical care for their colleagues. This is a privilege that is welcomed by most but can trigger...
Physicians often find themselves counseling a patient on the importance of healthy living, while recognizing that they, themselves, are not living a healthy lifestyle. They may feel like hypocrites or that the incredible time constraints under which...
Boundaries form the basis of the ethical, therapeutic, and professional core of what constitutes the accepted standard of high quality medical care. In short, healthy boundaries facilitate better clinical care and professional behaviour. This...
Disruptive behaviour among healthcare professionals refers to the use of inappropriate words, actions, or inactions that interferes with, or is likely to interfere with, quality healthcare delivery. Intimidation, denigrating staff in front of patients, and...
Are you concerned about a colleague's drug or alcohol use or worried that you yourself might have a substance use disorder? Physicians are at much the same risk for addiction as the general population but because we play an important role in the health and...
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Dr. Douglas Cave is a counselling psychology consultant and a founding member of the Centre for Practitioner Renewal (CPR) team. He is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Douglas is also the Lead Faculty for Behavioural Medicine in the Department of Family Practice in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. More
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