16 New Year’s resolutions for psychiatrists in 2016
Current Psychiatry. 2016 January;15(1):23-24
December 23, 2015|Psychiatry
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Making New Year’s resolutions is an interesting ritual with a notoriously short half-life. Those who go through the exercise, however, exhibit a certain degree of commendable self-reflection and insightfulness about the need for necessary adjustment in one’s life.
Back to diet and exercise—for our patients and for us!
It’s OK to include, among your New Year’s resolutions, a pledge to strongly encourage patients to diet and exercise. Given the tendency of many of them to gain weight and die prematurely as a consequence of obesity-related cardiometabolic risk factors, you should urge them to eat healthy and exercise every time you see them, not only on New Year’s Day.
