‘GPs need to be kind to themselves’: Your mental health in a time of COVID-19

Psychiatrist Dr Kym Jenkins discusses the stresses and strains on the profession and how to cope
Dr Kym Jenkins
Dr Kym Jenkins.

Dr Kym Jenkins is a former medical director of the Victorian Doctors Health Program.

Here, she talks about survivor guilt and the COVID crisis, the loneliness of medicine via telehealth and the need for GPs to give themselves ‘permission’ to be gentle on themselves.