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How doctors and nurses cope with 'moral distress'
Caring for patients is tough, particularly when you can't do what you think is ethically appropriate due to competing demands of insurers, lawyers, patients' families and administrators. The stress... Read more...
Study: 60 percent of healthcare professionals don't talk about insomnia
Approximately 30 million Americans suffer from chronic insomnia, but six in 10 doctors don't feel that they have enough time to have a discussion with their patients about the problem, according to a... Read more...
Cancer rates drop for first time
There's good news on the cancer front: For the first time since the government started keeping track, the rate of cancer in the U.S. has decreased. Researchers already knew that the number of cancer... Read more...
Study: Medical school can lead to burnout, suicidal thoughts
Everyone knowns that medical school can be a bruising ordeal, one that depletes students of time, energy, money and morale--and that in some cases, the stress is just too much to handle.... Read more...
