12. Every Doctor the book

 Every Doctor describes a transformational approach to staying strong and healthy throughout your brilliant but challenging medical career; co-creating supportive workplace cultures where everyone thrives; and advocating for a fairer, safer health system for patients and clinicians - together. 

The second edition is organised into four parts, covering topics such as: 

Part 1: Prioritising Psychological and Physical Protection

This section focuses on effective individual approaches to:

· staying strong under pressure

· prioritising time and making space for what matters most in your life as well as your career

· preventing and managing the epidemic of work-related burnout and mental injury in medicine. 

The book highlights many stories from doctors of all stages of their careers on ways of rethinking and overcoming adversity and it encourages readers to write their own inspirational stories.  

Part 2: Promoting Healthy Workplace Cultures, Fairness, and Safety

This part is about collaborating with colleagues and:

• advocating for better working conditions at time of skeleton staffing, excessive workloads and medical workforce shortages with like-minded colleagues
• co-creating more effective clinical teams through kindness, healthy robust debate and resolving common conflicts 
• learning from mistakes and clinical incidents
• confronting unconscious and conscious biases
• eliminating workplace abuses including discrimination, racism, sexual harassment, and bullying
• preventing and managing patient violence including verbal violence, threats and stalking

Part 3: Building Strong Relationships by Sharing Challenges

These chapters emphasise the role and responsibility of every doctor to look out for colleagues and to ‘have each other’s backs’ in challenging times: 

· mentoring early career doctors effectively to nurture high performance combined with self-compassion

· supporting colleagues with burnout and other mental illnesses

· reducing the stigma associated with mental health issues in medicine

· improving the mental health literacy of doctors in all specialties

· insights into life from personal experiences of loss and grief

Part 4: Saving Lives Through Medical Co-Leadership

The concluding section encourages every doctor to recognise their role as a leader in every day medical practice. It also argues that medical practitioners have more influence than they currently realise to effect health system change, particularly if they are united in their advocacy to their representative medical organisations, government, health insurers and other funders. Every doctor’s voice matters. 

Every doctor can:

· speak up and make our medical organisations including colleges and associations unite to drive health reform at the highest levels

· challenge constructive conversations in the medical profession and the community on important health issues though publishing and public speaking

· be inspired to transcend challenges and ‘think bigger’ by reading medical leadership stories in medicine 

· practise leadership values and ethics every day

Every Doctor 2nd edition: Audio book, hard copy and ebook available at Booktopia:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/every-doctor-leanne-rowe/book/9781032284323.html

or www.everydoctor.org