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STRESS ON THE DOCTOR AND HIS FAMILY
Author(s) -
Maddison David
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb70806.x
Subject(s) - personality , context (archaeology) , psychology , social psychology , rank (graph theory) , stress (linguistics) , history , philosophy , mathematics , linguistics , archaeology , combinatorics
There have always been many pressures upon doctors. There might be a good deal of contention about whether: (a) these stresses are increased in contemporary conditions; (b) some of these problems stem from the doctor's own personality attributes, and thus might have to be examined and ameliorated by attention to personality factors; and whether (c) present circumstances create a particular mismatching for many doctors between their own psychological needs and the sociopolitical context of contemporary medicine. Research studies are few and mainly unsatisfactory: “Of the myriad of topics appropriate to medical research, the physician himself must rank with those least studied” (Zabarenko et alii, 1970).