Helping sick doctors

摘要

Practising medicine can seriously damage your health. But despite mounting recognition of this fact, help for sick doctors in Britain remains inadequate and patchy. Other countries do better. Canada was among the first to acknowledge the constraints that stop doctors from seeking help for themselves, setting up a confidential help service in 1987, and in 1994 Norway invested $1.3 million in programmes to improve physicians' health and working conditions. Is Britain now ready to show a reciprocal duty of care to those who care for its members?