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IronDoc: Practical Stress Management Tools
for Physicians by Mamta Gautam, MD, FRCPC, MOT
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 Introduction
This book has been in my head for several years. Working with physicians
for the past decade, I have seen how we all share similar patterns
of thought and behaviour that lead both to our successes and our
stresses. Physicians have a dream — of being the perfect doctor,
saving lives, curing illness, stamping out disease. As their careers
progress, with the inevitable imposition of the limitations of reality,
the dream continues, requiring increasingly greater effort to maintain.
This dream encompasses their private lives, too, with physicians
also striving to be the perfect partners and the perfect parents.
Physicians try to be all things to all people. In doing so, their
personal needs are last, and often lost. Thus is laid the foundation
for stress in medicine.
Physician stress is a fact. It can be positive, enriching and motivating.
When it becomes negative and hurtful, it becomes a problem. It is
this negative stress that I hope to address in this book.
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