Crazy for health

Crazysocks4docs founder Dr Geoff Toogood again chose to join colleagues and health partners for the Adelaide event on #Crazysocks4docs Day on 2 June.

Dr Toogood reminded a roomful of doctors, medical students and friends at the Adelaide Convention Centre that Crazy Socks aims to increase awareness of the importance of doctors looking after their own mental health.

Dr Toogood and co-host Dr Roger Sexton – medical director of Doctors’ Health SA and medical editor of medicSA were joined in Adelaide by Dr Ben Bravery, psychiatry trainee and author of The Patient Doctor Released in 2022, The Patient Doctor details Dr Bravery’s experiences of illness and the health system after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer when aged 28.

Other speakers included Federal Health Minister Mark Butler and panel members Dr Sian Goodson, Chair of the RACGP in SA; Ms Isla Woidt of the Commission for Excellence and Innovation in Health; University of Adelaide Dean of Medicine Professor Danny Liew and paediatric rheumatologist Dr Gráinne Murray.

AMA(SA) Council members and staff donned their most colourful footwear to celebrate Crazysocks4docs Day and acknowledge the importance of doctors caring for their own mental health.

AMA(SA) Doctors in Training Committee Chair Dr Hayden Cain (left), Dr Louis Papilion and Associate Professor William Tam (centre) and Mrs Catherine Waite were amoung Council and staff members parading their socks for a very worthy cause.