Beneath the White Coat
Doctors in distress: Beneath the White Coat: Doctors Their Minds and Mental Health, the new book by Dame Clare Gerada.…
Dr Clare Gerada
Dr Gerada is a past Chair of the Council of the Royal College of GPs and medical director of the Practitioner Health Programme which is confidential service for doctors and dentists with mental health or addiction problems.
Coronavirus – Tips on coping with self isolation
GP Clare Gerada, 60, has been in self isolation herself for over a week since contracting the new coronovirus after…
Medicine and Me – Your Mental Health
The RSM's meeting, Medicine and Me - Your Mental Health, which took place over the weekend in London, was really…
Destructive Innovation creates a wasteland
The wasteland created by the political class post-Brexit is the ultimate expression of a deluded mantra which has gradually been eroding…
Doctors at greater risk of depression
Sometimes very distressed doctors in the NHS do make the news – as with Daksha Emerson, a young psychiatrist who…
Down in the swampy lowlands
Not so long ago, I found myself in the ‘swampy lowlands’ of general practice, a term devised by the philosopher,…
Physician, heal thyself?
I became a doctor influenced by my late father, a single-handed general practitioner. He, like many doctors in the 1960’s…