Doctors have to deal with a variety of physical and emotional challenges everyday. The risk of persistent fatigue through to burnout is particularly high, especially in the medical community. Nevertheless, there is a need for more doctors to treat patients as the doctor to patient ratio is 1 doctor to 1700 patient. Read here how resilience can succeed in the medical profession.
To answer the question of how doctors can remain healthy despite over demanding loads, psychologists led by Dr. Julia Zwack interviewed more than 200 doctors from various disciplines and hierarchical levels to identify strategies and attitudes which have proven them useful in both the clinic and in the office. Many respondents stated that they draw their motivation mainly from the following sources: Doctor-patient relationship: Doctors who consciously work for a high-quality relationship with their patients were…
