Looking after Ourselves, Like We Do Our Patients: With GP Dr Tesh

The YOD Pod

Welcome to this week's YODPOD with our very own YOD ambassador, Dr Tesh Amarasinghe!
We are excited for you to listen to the brilliant and honest insights of Dr Tesh in conversation with YODPOD hosts Dr Dan Gearon, Dr Mark Seaman & YOD Psychotherapist, Chris Cherry. Dr Tesh is a GP in Chelsea with a strong passion for improving doctors' life and a proud & valued ambassador for YOD.
Together, we explore a whole host of issues relevant to our medic lives, including:

• The historic need for doctors to normalise talking about mental health - and how YOD's weekly Huddles (which Dr Tesh is a regular at and advocate for) is achieving that
• Why doctors are so bad at looking after themselves, whilst being experts at looking after everyone else - and how that compares to other high pressure industries such as sport
• Dr Tesh's advice for keeping mental health & wellbeing simple, the power of small steps, her favourite Buddhist teacher & how she prefers mindfulness done in a playful way!
• An honest discussion about the sexualisation of women in the medical profession - and how being part of YOD has opened eyes to how common it sadly is
• The need for more doctors to be better people managers - to help build a more supportive, mentally fit profession of the future
• ....and much more!

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