Check out these wellness-related books by medical professionals:
• The Physician Wellness Project: A Doctor’s Roadmap to Job Satisfaction by Dr. Gregory Charlop: This book provides practice guidance for health care professionals searching for career fulfillment. It offers insight into creating a sustainable work-life balance and for rejuvenating passion.
• A Doctor’s Dozen: Twelve Strategies for Personal Health and a Culture of Wellness by Dr. Catherine Florio Pipas: Dr Pipas’ book explains strategies for living a healthy life that the author learned throughout her family physician career. The author uses patient stories to illustrate twelve wellbeing lessons that are founded in research and her personal observation.
• The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician’s First Year by Matt McCarthy, MD: Matt McCarthy’s uses humor to share about his challenges and successes with patients during his first-year medical residency. Dr. McCarthy highlights the difficulties of attaining balance between patient care and self-care in the early stages of his medical career.
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