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Self-Care of The Doctor

Self-care involves promoting physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It is an ethical responsibility for doctors given their role in treating patients and maintaining public health. However, many doctors experience high rates of depression, burnout, and suicide due to occupational stressors like long hours, heavy workloads, and constant exposure to patient illness. Practicing self-care through mindfulness, exercise, hobbies, time with family/friends, and limiting alcohol can help doctors build resilience to stress and enhance their ability to compassionately care for patients.

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Self-Care of The Doctor

Self-care involves promoting physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It is an ethical responsibility for doctors given their role in treating patients and maintaining public health. However, many doctors experience high rates of depression, burnout, and suicide due to occupational stressors like long hours, heavy workloads, and constant exposure to patient illness. Practicing self-care through mindfulness, exercise, hobbies, time with family/friends, and limiting alcohol can help doctors build resilience to stress and enhance their ability to compassionately care for patients.

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Emphasize self-care as an ethical responsibility of

doctors
What is self-care? complexity of the job, relentless contact
with patient ill health and emergencies,
WHO definition of self-care as “the ability of
high levels of responsibility, rapid change
individuals, families and communities to
within healthcare, low levels of support,
promote health, prevent disease, maintain
loss of job satisfaction and the inability to
health, and to cope with illness and
attend to their personal lives.
disability with or without the support of a
health care provider”.
Self-care involves not only taking care of
your health, but also your spiritual,
emotional, mental, social and behavioral
well-being.
Why is self-care important?
Doctor is someone who diagnose, treat and
prevent illness, disease, injury, and other
physical and mental impairments and
maintain general health in humans through
application of the principles and procedures
of modern medicine. The health of public is
solemnly dependent on the well-being of
the doctors.
Methods to improve self-care
Recent meta-analyses of global studies
estimate an overall depression prevalence Occupational stress resilience strategies
of 27% in medical students, 29% in include mindfulness, making time for
registrars and up to 60% in practising exercise, hobbies, holidays, spending
doctors. quality time with family or friends, limiting
alcohol use, self- monitoring, and attitudes
Why is burnout – and suicide – so that promote constructive and healthy
prevalent among medical students, engagement with the challenges at work.
residents and physicians? The self-care activities such as breath work,
Doctors are exposed to more work-related yoga, mindfulness mediation, massage and
stressors than many other professional therapy have been shown to increase
groups. These include long hours, extensive resilience in health care providers.
workloads, the growing intensity and
Conclusion:

Self-care is a proactive, holistic, and


personalised approach to the promotion of
health and wellbeing through a variety of
strategies, in both personal and
professional settings, to enhance capacity
for compassionate care of patients and
their families.

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