- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section One Stress of Being a Medical Student Introduction
- 1 Distributed Emotional Intelligence
- 2 First Clinical Attachments
- 3 Between two Worlds
- 4 Laughter for Coping
- 5 Bringing Complexity thinking to Curriculum Development
- Section Two Stress of Being a Physician
- 6 Maintaining a Balance
- 7 Physician Stress
- 8 The Medico-Legal Environment and How Medico-Legal Matters Impact the Doctor
- 9 The Impaired Physician
- 10 How Doctors Become Patients
- 11 Healthy Docs = Healthy Patients
- Section Three Management of Physician Stress
- 12 Overcopers
- 13 Stress and Coping
- 14 Treatment and Prevention Work
- 15 Promoting Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Physicians
- 16 Ethical Decisions
- Section Four Personal Reflections
- 17 Surgery
- 18 The Gifts of Palliative Care
- 19 Pediatrics
- 20 Psychiatrists in Distress
- 21 Medical Students and Residents
- 22 Family Medicine
- 23 Anesthesiology
- 24 Emergency Medicine
- 25 Conclusions
- Index
Healthy Docs = Healthy Patients
Healthy Docs = Healthy Patients
Arguably the Most Important Reason to Care about Physician Health
- Chapter:
- (p.193) 11 Healthy Docs = Healthy Patients
- Source:
- First Do No Self Harm
- Author(s):
Erica Oberg
Felipe Lobelo
Robert Sallis
Erica Frank
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter reports data that provide a compelling argument for ensuring that physicians maintain as healthy a lifestyle as possible. Studies have shown that physicians who exercise more, improve their nutritional practices, and avoid tobacco use are more likely to counsel their patients about these lifestyle choices, and their patients are more likely to follow that advice. Healthy personal practices improve one’s own health and professional performance, thereby healthy, active lifestyles are an efficient and effective strategy to help ourselves and our patients simultaneously.
Keywords: physician health, professional performance, healthy behaviors, physician as role model, patient counseling, patient health
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section One Stress of Being a Medical Student Introduction
- 1 Distributed Emotional Intelligence
- 2 First Clinical Attachments
- 3 Between two Worlds
- 4 Laughter for Coping
- 5 Bringing Complexity thinking to Curriculum Development
- Section Two Stress of Being a Physician
- 6 Maintaining a Balance
- 7 Physician Stress
- 8 The Medico-Legal Environment and How Medico-Legal Matters Impact the Doctor
- 9 The Impaired Physician
- 10 How Doctors Become Patients
- 11 Healthy Docs = Healthy Patients
- Section Three Management of Physician Stress
- 12 Overcopers
- 13 Stress and Coping
- 14 Treatment and Prevention Work
- 15 Promoting Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Physicians
- 16 Ethical Decisions
- Section Four Personal Reflections
- 17 Surgery
- 18 The Gifts of Palliative Care
- 19 Pediatrics
- 20 Psychiatrists in Distress
- 21 Medical Students and Residents
- 22 Family Medicine
- 23 Anesthesiology
- 24 Emergency Medicine
- 25 Conclusions
- Index
