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Posted in Aging, Burnout, specific medical conditions on Nov 18th, 2010
from today’s NYT:
By RONI CARYN RABIN Published: November 18, 2010
Women who are stressed at work are more likely than other working women to have a heart attack or other forms of heart disease, a new study suggests.
The findings, presented Monday at an American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, were based on data from 17,415 otherwise [...]
Posted in Burnout on Nov 18th, 2010
Can Fam Physician. 2008 Feb;54(2):234-5.
Lee FJ, Stewart M, Brown JB.
Centre for Family Medicine, 25 Joseph St, Kitchener, ON N2G 4X6. jlee@mcmaster.ca
Comment in:
Can Fam Physician. 2008 May;54(5):665, 667.
OBJECTIVE: To ascertain Canadian family physicians’ levels of stress and burnout and the strategies they use to reduce these problems.
DESIGN: Census survey.
SETTING: Kitchener-Waterloo, an urban area with a [...]
Posted in Burnout on Nov 18th, 2010
Aten Primaria. 2010 Nov;42(11):564-70. Epub 2010 Feb 2.
Franco Justo C.
Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain. cfranco@ual.es
PURPOSE: To check the effectiveness of a mindfulness development meditation technique on stress and anxiety in a group of primary-care physicians.
DESIGN: Quasi-experimental with pretest/posttest/follow-up measurements in a control group and an experimental group. [...]
Posted in Burnout, Compassion, Medical Education, Neuroscience on Apr 12th, 2010
Science 24 April 2009:
Vol. 324. no. 5926, pp. 458 - 459
Back in 2000, James Doty was living the high life. He drove a Ferrari to work and was in the process of buying a private island in New Zealand, a villa in Tuscany, and a penthouse apartment in San Francisco. A neurosurgeon [...]
Posted in Burnout on Apr 8th, 2010
JAMA. 2009 Sep 23;302(12):1284-93.
Krasner MS, Epstein RM, Beckman H, Suchman AL, Chapman B, Mooney CJ, Quill TE.
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA. michael_krasner@urmc.rochester.edu
Comment in:
JAMA. 2010 Jan 27;303(4):330-1; author reply 331.
JAMA. 2009 Sep 23;302(12):1338-40.
Abstract
CONTEXT: Primary [...]
Posted in Burnout, Compassion, Mindfulness in Medicine on Sep 25th, 2009
from JAMA, 2009 Sep 23;302(12):1284-93
Krasner MS, Epstein RM, Beckman H, Suchman AL, Chapman B, Mooney CJ, Quill TE.
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA. michael_krasner@urmc.rochester.edu
CONTEXT: Primary care physicians report high levels of distress, which is linked to burnout, attrition, and poorer quality of care. Programs to reduce burnout before [...]
Posted in Burnout, Medical Education, Mindfulness in Medicine, specific medical conditions on Aug 12th, 2009
from Harv Bus Rev. 2005 Nov;83(11):53-8, 165
Benson H.
Stress is an essential response in highly competitive environments. Before a race, before an exam, before an important meeting, your heart rate and blood pressure rise, your focus tightens, you become more alert and more efficient. But beyond a certain level, stress overloads your system, compromising your performance [...]
Posted in Burnout, Mindfulness in Medicine on Jul 25th, 2009
from the journal, Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2009 May;15(2):61-6
Irving JA, Dobkin PL, Park J.
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. Julie.irving@mail.mcgill.ca
Demands faced by health care professionals include heavy caseloads, limited control over the work environment, long hours, as well as organizational structures and systems in transition. Such conditions have been directly linked [...]
Posted in Burnout, Medical Education on Jul 25th, 2009
from the journal, J Holist Nurs. 2009 Jun;27(2):103-14
Posadzki P, Jacques S.
University of East Anglia, School of Medicine, Health Policy.
The aim of this article is to review the literature on Tai Chi and meditation. A coherent construct is developed that includes a comparative analysis and conceptual synthesis of existing theories. The authors discuss a set of [...]
Posted in Burnout on Jul 25th, 2009
from the journal, Aust Fam Physician. 2009 Jun;38(6):454-8
Manoch R, Gordon A, Black D, Malhi G, Seidler R.
Natural Therapies Unit, Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, New South Wales. r.manocha@healthed.com.au
BACKGROUND: General practitioner stress is a recognised problem for which meditation is a potential intervention. The aim of this project was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness [...]