Doctor Warrick Bishop - Heart Health
Sep 26, 2026 · 10 min · 9 segments
Welcome to my podcast**. I am Doctor Warrick Bishop**, and I want to help you to live as well as possible for as long as possible. I’m a practising cardiologist, best-selling author, keynote speaker…
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What is it all about? And interestingly, there's a survey that was done on physicians that leads us to an evaluation of why we let friendships slide and why kindness is so important.

Well, I had a paper come across my desk where they looked at or which summarized a Medscape article summarized over a thousand doctors across nearly 30 odd specialties where they were surveyed around friendships, kindness and how that fitted into their busy life.

Now this is doctors, but it could relate to tradies, someone running their own business, executives, other professions like lawyers.

Of this over 1,000 doctors, more than half said that forming friendships at their stage of life was difficult or very difficult, higher than the general population.

Interestingly, doctors under 45 seem to struggle even more than older colleagues.

So when it comes to building friendships, it seems that work and family nearly always come first.

59% of the respondents in the survey said that they would put family ahead of friendships.

And 20% said they rarely or never let friendships take priority over work or family.

Now, the fact that they don't take priority over work is probably fairly important.

One respondent, within the survey simply said, I spend so much time at work that I feel guilty going out with friends instead of being with family.

Friendships often lose out precisely because they rarely come with the deadline or an immediate consequence.

And most close friendships still come from work or from study, which means when that component of life ends, the friendship can potentially end with it.

What is it all about? And interestingly, there's a survey that was done on physicians that leads us to an evaluation of why we let friendships slide and why kindness is so important.

Well, I had a paper come across my desk where they looked at or which summarized a Medscape article summarized over a thousand doctors across nearly 30 odd specialties where they were surveyed around friendships, kindness and how that fitted into their busy life.

Now this is doctors, but it could relate to tradies, someone running their own business, executives, other professions like lawyers.

Of this over 1,000 doctors, more than half said that forming friendships at their stage of life was difficult or very difficult, higher than the general population.

Interestingly, doctors under 45 seem to struggle even more than older colleagues.

So when it comes to building friendships, it seems that work and family nearly always come first.

59% of the respondents in the survey said that they would put family ahead of friendships.

And 20% said they rarely or never let friendships take priority over work or family.

Now, the fact that they don't take priority over work is probably fairly important.

One respondent, within the survey simply said, I spend so much time at work that I feel guilty going out with friends instead of being with family.

Friendships often lose out precisely because they rarely come with the deadline or an immediate consequence.

And most close friendships still come from work or from study, which means when that component of life ends, the friendship can potentially end with it.
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