Things you can do to help yourself
We went into Orthopaedic Surgery because we enjoyed it. It is a great feeling making a major benefit to a person's life and we are lucky to get that experience a lot in our professional lives.
However, it is easy to underestimate how much of ourselves we give to our patients on a daily basis and if things go less well, we have to give more. It is also easy to get very busy and wrapped up in our work and for it to become overwhelming in itself or to have a negative effect on our personal lives.
We hope you can find what you are looking for on the site - you have made the first and most important step in the right direction.
A personal strategy to confront stress in medical practice
In this short video, Andrew Wolf, Professor of Paediatric Anaesthesia, explains his personal strategy used to confront stress in his professional life.
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