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Beneath the White Coat

Doctors, Their Minds and Mental Health

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Beneath the White Coat

By: Clare Gerada - editor
Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
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This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals, supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases. Recognizing the increasing stressors in the role including the impact of the environment in which doctors work, the book examines some of the key emotional drivers for this unhappiness among doctors at work—shame, stigma, suffering, and sacrifice—and offers practical steps to emotional and physical recovery.

Despite the obvious challenges and stresses of the role, with the right support in place the vast majority of doctors can thrive in their jobs. Policy makers, politicians, educators, and hospital managers will be reminded of the ethical duty to ensure that doctors are cared for and have access to the time, people, and spaces to remain psychological healthy, while doctors will learn to recognize and seek actively the help that they need, and to support and guide one another.

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From start to finish, I found this book amazingly insightful and relatable. As a female of a minoritised ethnicity, I have gone through a tumultuous year both with illness and multiple new neurodiversity diagnoses. It has helped me to put my own well-being ahead of my medical career and gave me clarity in times of uncertainty. A must-read for every doctor!

Good opportunity for introspection for any medic.

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