Editorial
24 July 2023
Do you suffer from high work pressure or a poor work-life balance as a doctor? Trouble saying no? Do you fear difficult conversations or are you tense in the department? Marianne Brouwers, non-practicing general practitioner, NHG supervisor and coach helps doctors to (re)discover their personal strength to tackle the challenges in their work and to learn to sail on their own compass.
“I believe that as a doctor you can only provide good care if you know yourself well and you can indicate your limits,” says Marianne Brouwers. “Only with sufficient self-knowledge and self-reflection, with which you know what your pitfalls are and what your part is in a relationship, you can enter into a good relationship with the patient. You need to develop these soft skills. Although I don’t think that’s such ‘soft’ skills at all; these are skills that you desperately need for good communication with your patient. I help doctors with less and less job satisfaction and doubts about their profession to make choices for their future. So that they become the doctor they want to be. What matters is: what do you need to be able to do your job with confidence and authenticity?”
“I realized that it was not a question of working even harder, but of working differently”
NHG supervisor and coach Marianne Brouwers
Good is good enough
Brouwers knows the situation in which many (young) doctors find themselves all too well. As a rehabilitation doctor’s assistant, she also ran out of her legs. She slept badly, dreaded the services and increasingly doubted her decisions. But she just couldn’t
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