Firth-Cozens / Harrison How to Survive in Medicine

Personally and Professionally
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-70314-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: HOW - How To

Medicine is a career that most people consider to be enviable.Whatever one's criteria for a good job, being a doctor ticks a lotof boxes: doctors are needed, respected, well remunerated and canmake a difference between life and death Increasingly, doctors areexperiencing stress, depression and anxiety, fuelled by theincreasing demands of the health services, and the lack ofresources to support them.
Focussing on the causes, symptoms and management ofpsychological problems experienced by doctors at all stages intheir careers, this book considers the difficulties and stressorsof medicine as a career, linking to studies that look at whatinterventions are successful in the workplace and offering varioussolutions.
Including:
* A study based over 20 years of doctors' stress factors
* Case histories to bring the subject to life
* Guidance on choosing a specialty, dealing with difficultpeople, stress and demands 37
A valuable resource both for trainers and doctors alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Firth-Cozens, Jenny

Harrison, Jamie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Part 1: The job and you.
1 It's just a difficult job.
2 Why me?
Part 2: Waving, not drowning.
3 You and your partner: for life?
4 Choosing a specialty.
5 Dealing with stress.
6 Down in the dumps.
7 Difficult people?
8 Feeling angry.
9 A little too much.
10 Demands, demands, demands!
11 Can you afford emotions?
12 To err is human.
13 Managing the stress and problems of others.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jenny Firth-Cozens is an occupational and clinicalpsychologist and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology who hasworked at all levels of the health service and within academia. Shehas published numerous reports and several books, both academic andpopular, including Stress in Health Professionals: Psychologicaland organizational causes and interventions (Wiley) andNervous Breakdown: What is it? What causes it? Who willhelp? (Piatkus) which was a book club choice for many years. Inaddition she has contributed articles to most leading newspapersand magazines and for 10 years was agony aunt for Good Housekeepingand The Yorkshire Post.
Jamie Harrison, MA FRCGP, Deputy Director of PostgraduateGP Education, The Northern Deanery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK hascontributed the case scenarios.