Maritta Philp - Doctors Choice: The Hard-Working Doctors Guide to Creating a Life of Freedom

Doctors Choice

A Hard-Working Doctors Guide
to Creating a Life of Freedom

Maritta Philp, MD

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Doctors Choice

A Hard Working Doctors Guide to Creating a Life of Freedom

2018 Maritta Philp, MD

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To my mother,
who stood by me and loved me
through thick and thin.

I first met Maritta when she came to train with me in one of my Rapid Transformational Therapy courses, and I was delighted when she asked me to write the foreword for her first book.

What makes Maritta extraordinary is the breadth of her knowledge and skills. Not only is she a medical doctor, she is also a skilled Rapid Transformational Therapist and psychotherapist with a real passion to make a profound difference to her clients, empowering them to step into an extraordinary life.

Her honesty about her experience working as a doctor is refreshing and at times shocking, as she tells of the pressure and stress that she and many of her colleagues have been and continue to be exposed to.

Her book is written for doctors who feel overwhelmed by the pressures they are facing every day, not knowing whether to stay or to go; to change how they work or to simply continue as they are while paying a high price.

In truth, this book would be useful for anyone feeling stuck and overwhelmed in their career or life in general, as the tools Maritta is teaching are universal and easily implemented.

The core of this book is a step-by-step guide to identify what you really want, what your values are, and how you can manifest your vision.

Her book is easy to read and filled with simple yet powerful exercises. Marittas knowledge of the science behind many of our habits and behaviors is sound and helpful in understanding why we can get stuck and may find change difficult. She offers tools that make that change easy and manageable, without feeling overwhelmed.

Brimming with easy to use strategies, this book contains the knowledge that a reader needs to make a real change in their life and overcome whatever it is that keeps them stuck.

As a successful therapist and author myself, I have been aware of the importance of the material in Marittas book for many years. I teach this material along with hypnotherapy and other skills to therapists around the world, who have phenomenal success with their clients, often changing lives in a single session.

The concepts that Maritta shares in Doctors Choice are very powerful, as they can empower anyone to lead an extraordinary life. Read with an open heart, and prepare to take the first steps toward your new, fulfilling life.

Marisa Peer

www.marisapeer.com

www.rapidtransformationaltherapy.com

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I know your story. It is my story, too.

I will tell you more about my story in a little while. It might be different in some of the details, but overall there will be more similarities than differences. We are all in the same boat. We all have similar experiences. We all face similar pressures.

You are a doctor and you are struggling with your work and your life. You picked up this book because you are considering quitting your practice. Perhaps this is the right decision, but it might not be. But you know for sure that the pressure is too much and that something must change.

Perhaps this change simply means identifying a healthier way to work. This could mean fewer hours, less pressure, a different post. Or it could mean a complete change of career and leaving medicine behind. These are big decisions, and there is a lot at stake: your life, your happiness, your future.

You work very hard. You have trained for decades to get to where you are right now. You started out loving your job and your patients, and helping them was the main driver for you, giving you satisfaction and meaning. It was so much more than a job: It was a calling, a vocation.

But over time this has been changing. You are feeling more and more worn out, tired, and exhausted. Youre rushing through a caseload that continuously increases in both volume and complexity. You find that you cannot provide the quality of care you really want to; there simply is not enough time in the day; there is not enough of you.

You also find that your patients demand so much more of you now, but the system is not designed to cope with that demand. The system is based on need, not want.

You expend so much energy at work that there is little left for yourself, your loved ones, and the things you love to do. The joy and passion you once felt are slowly trickling out of your life, and you are now content to survive until the next weekend. You would love to be able to spend more quality time with your children and partner, cook homemade meals, look after your health, exercise more, but all you can muster is the energy to order takeout and watch TV.

That was my life, until I decided that I no longer wanted to experience that kind of daily pressure and drudgery.

This kind of pressure has a price and we all pay it. We may pay in different currencies, though.

I had a colleague, for instance, who seemed to cope very well, until it emerged that he took prescription drugs and used alcohol to deal with the stress. His position at work became untenable and he had to leave. This increased the pressure on his colleagues significantly, and the practice is now struggling to manage. Another colleague collapsed at his desk at work and could not be resuscitated. He only had a few years before his planned retirement. He had a wife and young child. Yet another colleague retired, having felt ill and suffered with headaches for some years. It emerged he had a very rare form of brain tumor, and he died within two years of retirement.

We all know stories like these. Sadly, they are quite commonplace.

I came to realize that living life in this fashion is very unhealthy, and the price will be paid sooner or later. You cannot keep giving and never receiving. Just like you cannot keep breathing out and never take a breath in.