Tag Archive: Doctor Wellbeing

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December 7, 2022 6:16 pm

Where are all the men?

by Sharee Johnson

How do male doctors develop their human skills? How do men develop their human skills in relationship, communication and self care? In 2022 we really got excited with 7 men and 8 women completing our Recalibrate program!! It was the first time male and female participants had neared parity in our immersion doctor care program […]

Coaching helps you see yourself more clearly
November 4, 2022 12:50 pm

Coaching helps doctors see themselves

by Sharee Johnson

Q: What is it that you do in coaching with a doctor?

 A: Mostly I help them see themselves.
The person I am working with knows what is best for them.

Doctors are Humans
October 3, 2022 9:00 am

Doctors are humans.

by Sharee Johnson

Next time you meet a doctor
Remember you are meeting a human being
With all the human needs and frailties that you have
With a life that can get messy like yours outside the hospital walls, beyond the clinic

Sharee Presenting
September 6, 2022 9:00 am

Interpreter, facilitator, coach

by Sharee Johnson

Learning the skills of wellbeing takes more than a one hour workshop. For healthcare to find a way to take better care of the workers, we need radical change not tweaks at the edges.

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July 20, 2022 8:53 am

Staff wellbeing takes more than a one hour workshop.

by Sharee Johnson

Learning the skills of wellbeing takes more than a one hour workshop. For healthcare to find a way to take better care of the workers, we need radical change not tweaks at the edges.

hands in blue gloves making a heart shape
June 22, 2022 8:14 am

Healthcare Crisis: 6 things you can do

by Sharee Johnson

Healthcare Crisis: 6 things you can do right now for better health and better healthcare Healthcare workers are struggling with exhaustion, frustration, distress, vicarious trauma, moral injury, anxiety, depression and burnout. Recent news of doctor suicides is totally heartbreaking. There is a direct relationship between the health of doctors and the health outcomes of patients.  […]

Healthcare needs of leaders - symbols of needs
March 7, 2022 1:10 pm

What does healthcare need from its leaders in 2022?

by Sharee Johnson

What does healthcare need from its leaders in 2022? During the pandemic crisis healthcare workers have pulled together to respond with military precision and peak effectiveness to meet the immediate need, to look after patients. But what of before and after the crisis? Burnout and workforce shortages already existed pre-COVID and healthcare worker wellbeing was […]

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January 14, 2022 1:20 pm

Be more like water

by Sharee Johnson

People, healthcare workers, are saying two things over and over to me in the first two weeks of 2022. Everyone is so fatigued after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all so tired. What can we do, all we can do is keep going. I was lucky and grateful to have a couple […]

Sharee holding her book The Thriving Dcotor
November 25, 2021 2:08 pm

How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working in medicine.

by Sharee Johnson

The Thriving Doctor – How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working in medicine. It’s no secret that doctors are under pressure. COVID-19 has amplified their workplace stress, threatened their own wellbeing and demanded they work in conditions few others have to consider. When doctors are well, patient health outcomes and experience improve according to […]

August 11, 2021 2:05 pm

Choosing a Coach

by Sharee Johnson

Choosing a coach, many more doctors are seeking coaching which is wonderful. Evidence-based coaching has much to offer the coachee doctor in terms of development, growth and learning. In 2020, Liselotte, Dyrbye, Shanafelt, Gill et al published their randomised trial in JAMA asking the key question: Does professional coaching result in a measurable reduction in […]

water ripples after stone dropped
July 26, 2021 11:37 am

Let the first stone you drop in the water be for yourself

by Sharee Johnson

Doctor Self-Care The experienced psychiatrist sitting opposite me in coaching said “You were the first person to ever ask me: What do you want?” He went on to describe the profound impact this simple question had had on him. These four words had permitted him to discover, to imagine, to believe that he could actually […]

House image with words 'Safety First' as foundation, 'Patients First' and Do No Harm' as sides/walls
March 22, 2021 10:56 am

Safety first: a better guiding principle for healthcare

by Sharee Johnson

Safety first is a better guiding principle for healthcare than patients first. Doctors around Australia are under significant pressure. Junior doctors taking a class action about unpaid overtime is simply the latest in a long line of known problems that are embedded in the culture of healthcare. Big problems for doctors themselves like high rates […]