Doctors can benefit from coaching, not only for themselves but also as a way of enabling their patients to decide about treatment options. This book explains what coaching is, and how it can encourage doctors to improve their work-life balance. There is information about the benefits of telephone and internet coaching and the skills you can learn from working with a coach. You will also discover the secrets of successful coaching if you want to coach doctors and have a positive outcome from coaching sessions.
Susan Kersley, the author, is a retired doctor who trained as a Life Coach and writes from the perspective of someone who has experienced for herself the stress and overwhelm of a medical life. She believes doctors can have a less stressful life. It is vital to balance medicine with self-care, time with partner, family, friends and community in order to have a happy life in or out of medicine.