Doctors’ health: obstacles and enablers to returning to work

Breastfeeding and returning to work.

Shame! Self-stigmatisation as an obstacle to sick doctors returning to work: a qualitative study

OBJECTIVE To explore the views of sick doctors on the obstacles preventing them returning to work. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Single participating centre recruiting doctors from all over the UK. PARTICIPANTS Doctors who had been away from work for at least 6 months with physical or mental health problems, drug or alcohol problems, General Medical Council involvement or any combinat...

Predictors of returning to work.

An investigation of predictors of returning to work in a sample of physically injured persons who are receiving workers' compensation benefits and vocational rehabilitation is presented. One hundred fourteen injured subjects (86 with back injury; 28, other injury) undergoing vocational rehabilitation and receiving workers' compensation benefits were assessed on demographic, emotional, cognitive...

Attitudes to work and health in doctors in training.

BACKGROUND To date initiatives about work and health issues have been focused on general practitioners (GPs). The recent change to sickness certification (fit note) now requires all hospital doctors to provide patients in their immediate care with a MED 3 where necessary. AIMS To investigate the attitudes and behaviours of hospital-based trainees to the management of work and health in their ...

Returning to work after stroke: a review.

This review focuses on the experiences and rehabilitation needs of working age, higher functioning stroke survivors in relation to their 'return to work'. It grew out of the poststroke experience of one of the authors and her realization of the inadequacy of services to facilitate return to work and optimal recovery from stroke. The authors' aim is to present a practice-oriented review that can...