If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it. Stanley J. Sarnoff Doctors are used to stress.
Wounds get infected, complications occur and patients die. Medicine has always been a stressful profession, and doctors have always had to deal with making life and death decisions , delivering bad news, working long hours, managing with little pay , and coping with heavy work loads and bad working conditions. However, in the past, the doctor’s social status, prestige and income compensated for their stress. Today, the struggle to attract patients; the rampant prevalence of unethical malpractises in our profession; shrinking incomes ; declining social status ; and the threat of malpractise suits and legal action have brought many physicians to the brink of…
