{"id":1258,"date":"2024-09-06T16:48:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/9854-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:48:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:48:39","slug":"9854-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/9854-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK GP shares her story with national TV viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK&#8217;s Dr Sarah Jacques shared her powerful story of burning out as a GP on national breakfast television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Jacques, a member of the Doctors\u2019 Association UK\u2019s (DAUK) GP committee, was interviewed for a BBC Breakfast feature about mental health support for doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She told viewers there was still \u2018a stigma\u2019 around mental health in the profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith health care professionals, we don&#8217;t consider ourselves to be human,\u201d Dr Jacques said. \u201cTo admit we&#8217;re struggling is quite a hard thing to do, so I think people tend to hide it a lot and keep it to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Sarah Jacques and Dr Claire Ashley - BBC Breakfast\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zRK9p_Ruewo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Watch Dr Jacques&#8217;s interview on BBC Breakfast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/membership\/\">Support the work of the Doctors\u2019 Association UK<\/a>&nbsp;by becoming a member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK&#8217;s Dr Sarah Jacques shared her powerful story of burning out as a GP on national breakfast television. Dr Jacques, a member of the Doctors\u2019&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59,58],"tags":[38,656,593,111,42],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","category-the-nhs","tag-dauk","tag-dr-sarah-jacques","tag-gp-suicide","tag-mental-health","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}