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Some of the best advice I ever read on this subject, which really helped me through residency training was from the little essays at the beginning of the Oxford handbook of clinical medicine [1]. The one I particularly remember was called "On being busy", and taught a generation of UK medical students and residents about "Corrigan's secret door" (the link hopefully shows that page on Google books). My favorite quote from the book was about how to recognise "stress" in yourself: "stress is defined as arguing with more than one nurse in 24 hours".

The book was affectionately known in England as the "cheese and onion book", because the colour of the cover matched what at the time was the traditional colour of packets of cheese and onion flavor crisps in the UK [2]

[1] https://goo.gl/6Pz1Z1

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2293465/A-che...

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