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IronDoc: Practical Stress Management Tools
for Physicians by Mamta Gautam, MD, FRCPC, MOT
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 Becoming an Irondoc
Balancing our lives in medicine is both a challenge and a necessity. An essential component of success is the skill to attain balance in our lives. The very traits that help us to excel as physicians can also make it difficult for us to achieve this balance easily. We are conscientious, perfectionistic, caring, responsible and people-pleasing. Being like this at work does not leave time and energy for much else.
Balancing Our Work and Home Lives
Balancing the many roles and responsibilities we have is essentially about setting priorities and making choices. I used to think that balancing my life was easy. I just needed to look at all that I was doing, identify what I liked to do and keep doing that, and identify what I did not like to do and give this up.
I soon realized that this was only the first step in the "Balancing Two-Step." The next, harder step was, from the list of all the things that I liked to do, to choose to do some things, and to choose to NOT do some things. Therein lies the challenge: we have to choose to not do things that we like to do, that we are good at doing, which others want us to do. As it has been said, you can do all that you want, just not at the same time!
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