This guide has been designed for anaesthetists and specialist pain medicine physicians interested in the locating resources relevant to the general wellbeing of medical practitioners, including those resources available through the ANZCA library.
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When breath becomes air by At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all.
This is going to hurt : secret diaries of a junior doctor by Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, these diaries are everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.
Ahola K, Väänänen A, Koskinen A, Kouvonen A, Shirom A. Burnout as a predictor of all-cause mortality among industrial employees: a 10-year prospective register-linkage study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2010;69(1):51-57.
beyondblue. National mental health survey of doctors and medical students. October 2013.
Llewellyn, A. Asking difficult questions in supervision, think RUOK? On the wards; Feb 9, 2017.
Rimmer A. I've noticed a change in my colleague's behaviour. what should I do? BMJ(Online). 2019;365. Request from Library
Doctors are human too
Click here to read a series of articles, from the Australian Doctor website, which highlight the theme of #doctors-are-human-too. This sheds light on the need to preserve and maintain doctors' mental health, so they can live fully while also being present for their patients.
Looking for other well-being resources related to the COVID-19 outbreak? Check out the Coronavirus/COVID-19 library guide.
Wellbeing SIG
For more information about this Special Interest Group (SIG), including accessing specific resource documents as well as podcasts and other resources available through Networks, please visit the Wellbeing SIG page on the ANZCA website.
Additionally, if you would like to join this SIG an application form and contact details are available from the ANZCA website.
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