‘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 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.
Initially, the adrenaline was flowing.
We were all afraid that we would be facing something similar to Europe and the US, dealing with these horrific decisions about who gets what equipment, who should we treat and who misses out, and living in fear of getting infected ourselves.
