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Holiday Musings

As I write this I am sitting at the window of my cabin on a Hurtigruten cruise watching the Norwegian Coast slide by and contemplating the value of holidays. I suspect I am not alone in saying that the trouble with holidays is that it doesn’t matter how far you go or how long you stay away, you always take yourself with you.

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Kindling Kindness
Kindling Kindness
Dr. Sarah Barker

As health professionals, our strong focus tends to be on the wellbeing of others. If we are to have a long career in our professions, we need to swing that focus regularly and routinely to ourselves as well.

If I were a lumberjack would I have been OK?
If I were a lumberjack would I have been OK?
Dr Jan Orman

"Doctor’s experience chronic and unrelenting grief (often other people’s)"

Life is like a barstool…
Life is like a barstool…
Dr Jan Orman

Someone I know once knew used to say that - “Life is like a barstool – the more legs it has the better.” Our careers are just one of those legs. If that is the only leg we have to stand on, it won’t be long before we come crashing down to the floor.