Comments on: Doctor With Cancer Diagnosis Uses Self-Hypnosis https://adam-eason.com/doctor-with-cancer-diagnosis-uses-self-hypnosis/ Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherpy as taught by Hypnotherapist Adam Eason Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Adam Eason https://adam-eason.com/doctor-with-cancer-diagnosis-uses-self-hypnosis/#comment-14919 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:56:58 +0000 http://DoctorWithCancerDiagnosisUsesSelf-Hypnosis#comment-14919 Doctors are not the only ones with this kind of thing… Teachers often go through it… SOlicitors and other professionals… Doctors get needled here because of their relation to my own work…

Gráinne, as an extremely hard-working and top-rung doctor yourself, and someone whose opinion I value very highly, thanks for showing us that I am not always right on everything across the board… 🙂

]]> By: Grá https://adam-eason.com/doctor-with-cancer-diagnosis-uses-self-hypnosis/#comment-14918 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:15:24 +0000 http://DoctorWithCancerDiagnosisUsesSelf-Hypnosis#comment-14918 I suppose I should be ranting and raving about attitudes to doctors…but I can’t. In a way you do us a favour when you talk about professional institutionalisation and lack of interpersonal skills etc. It’s true! And partly because doctors are, in fact, fallible human beings and prone to exactly the same weaknesses and problems as the average person. Perhaps even more so….
It’s possibly surprising that there aren’t more with terrible personalities and difficulties really. Medicine is a popular course and selects out the people who achieve academically. These are unfortunately the same group who also tend to be perfectionists, people who study hard, those who put academic achievement ahead of social commitments and fun! These people decide to do the course at 17 or 18 (and how much does anybody really know at that age?) and spend the next 5/6yrs studying and socialising mainly with others on the same course. Straight into work and climbing a ladder that is generally very ordered with little chance to branch out into the slightly different things. Communication training is starting to come in for some of the exams (the surgeons decided they needed it!) but otherwise psychology/emotional issues/communication are generally met with snorts of derision. Doctors are often said to make the worst patients. We don’t get sick! Absenteeism rates are low because we drag ourselves into work when we obviously shouldn’t. Nobody wants to admit to physical vulnerability so mental health problems would be a definite no-no. It’s a small, cloistered community really. Very little is kept secret and there is always the worry about how things will be perceived as you try to climb the ladder. Anything less than sailing through can be viewed as just not cutting it when it comes to the competition to get on training schemes etc. Not so surprising then that many have problems with alcohol or drug abuse, or leave the profession altogether!

So yes, doctors could benefit from not buying into their own hype and remembering that they (we!) are human…..and with that, being more open to caring for ourselves. Hopefully that will help us in our treatment of others.

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