Health

Looking after the body and mind that do the work.

Doctors know the guidance and rarely have time to follow it. We write about sleep, food, movement and mental health for people who work nights and long shifts. Every health claim carries a source, and wellness fads are reported on, not promoted.

Health
Sleep, food, mental health and the check-ups doctors skip.
Fitness
Movement that fits around a rota.

An empty running track at first light, mist low over the infield.

In health

Late-morning light falls across an unmade bed through half-closed blinds.

In preparation · Health

Sleep after nights: what the evidence supports, and what it does not

Practical, sourced advice for the day after a night shift.

An empty patient chair in a consulting room, seen from the doctor’s side of the desk.

In preparation · Health

Doctors as patients

Why so many of us skip our own check-ups, and what changes when we finally sit on the other side of the desk.

In preparation · Fitness

Exercise for people who work nights: what the evidence supports

When to train, how much helps and what the research cannot yet tell us.

Pieces marked “In preparation” are being reported and written. Have an experience we should hear about? Write for us.

Elsewhere in Life

Time and energy
The hours that are yours, and the attention you bring to them.
Relationships
Love, friendship and family, on a schedule that rarely cooperates.
Places
Where doctors travel, live and put down roots.
Taste
What doctors read, wear, use and enjoy.
Identity
Who you are when you are not being a doctor.

Across the site

Working life, on the Career desk

The Handover

A richer life, every Sunday.

One considered letter a week, with the best of the Life desk alongside everything else worth a doctor’s time.