Head and Neck Unit, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Head Neck. 2020 Jul;42(7):1638-1644. doi: 10.1002/hed.26291. Epub 2020 May 28.
Unprecedented times call for extraordinary measures. While surgeons across the globe try to comprehend the evolving facade of the COVID-19 pandemic and improvise surgical practice to the best of their ability, the psychological impact of the stress on their own mental health and well-being has been underestimated. This paper aims to review the indirect and overt factors that may affect the mental health of a surgeon in the present circumstances. Furthermore, it will aim to highlight key coping mechanisms at an individual and institutional level, so as to mitigate the negative psychological impact on surgeons.
非常时期需要非常措施。当全球各地的外科医生努力理解 COVID-19 大流行不断变化的局面,并尽最大能力调整外科实践时,人们低估了这种压力对他们自身心理健康的心理影响。本文旨在回顾可能影响当前情况下外科医生心理健康的间接和明显因素。此外,它还将旨在强调个人和机构层面的关键应对机制,以减轻对外科医生的负面影响。