Doctors
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STRESS IN MEDICAL PRACTICE:
PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS
“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope”.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘STRESS’: A SITUATION in which it SEEMS TO US that life’s problems are greater than we can
handle - for more than a short period of time. The perception of threat and helplessness creates
fear and anxiety, then ‘burnout’.
The world should be less stressful. Kids could be taught about stress
starting in Grade 1. Dream on!
Problem #1. PATIENTS ARE STRESSED
Problem #2 PHYSICIAN STRESS
Stress affects medical practice in two ways: