Below is a selection of ebooks about physician wellness. You'll find books on how physicians can improve their own wellness and books about the factors that lead to burnout and stress.
Featured eBooks:
The Physician Wellness Project by
Feeling stuck in a never-ending cycle of work, paperwork, and stress? Through carefully crafted advice and real-life examples, this book guides you toward a more fulfilling career trajectory, better work-life harmony, and, most importantly, a happier you. Intended for doctors, nurses, and other health professionals looking to change or improve their careers.
Mindful Medicine by
Simple and brief mindfulness practices to help health care professionals of all kinds reconnect with themselves and their patients, find joy, and build resilience.
The Doctor Dilemma: How to Quit Being Miserable without Quitting Medicine by
The Doctor Dilemma is an easy-to-read book for busy physicians who are struggling with burnout, unhappiness, and career dissatisfaction, and may even be wondering if they made a mistake becoming a doctor.
Restoring the Healer : Spiritual Self-Care for Health Care Professionals by
To both the spiritually active and the spiritually resistant, hospital chaplain William Dorman offers a guide to understand a more comprehensive, full-bodied self-care. Each chapter begins with case studies, concrete experiences that help unpack abstract concepts which bring much needed peace to stressed individuals. Dorman also structures each chapter to end with prayers and action steps, which offer more concrete ways to care for the self.
What Doctors Feel by
“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors'emotions impact medical care (Boston Globe) While much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Dr. Danielle Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions—shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love—that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection.
Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice by
2nd edition - The mental and physical health of caregivers impacts more than just that individual worker. It affects the health of their patients, it impacts their families, it shapes communities, it influences politics, and it plays into international relations. Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice is an indispensable resource for medical and nursing professionals, students, and the counselors and therapists who work with them.
The Moral Distress Syndrome Affecting Physicians by
Dr. Frezza highlights the growing concern of healthcare worker burnout, moral distress, and loss within the medical community. Essential information is provided on the causation and consequences of burnout and the strategies needed going forward for individuals and organizations.
Burnout in Women Physicians: Prevention, Treatment, and Management by
1st edition - This book is the first to dissect the factors contributing to burnout that impact women physicians and seeks to appropriately address these issues.
Wellbeing by
1st edition - This book provides a detailed guide for surgeons and surgical trainees on a variety of facets relevant to wellbeing, and how to maintain wellbeing throughout a career in academic surgery.
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