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STRESS IN HOSPITALS THE MARRIED INTERN: VINTAGE 1973
Author(s) -
BATES ERICA M.,
CARROLL PHILOMENA J.
Publication year - 1975
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.1326-5377.1975.tb106275.x
Subject(s) - hospitality , action (physics) , work (physics) , action plan , psychology , medicine , family medicine , medical education , nursing , management , political science , engineering , law , economics , tourism , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
Forty‐five married interns and their spouses were interviewed about the stresses the intern's profession placed upon the marriage. Long hours of work, preoccupation with medicine, inability to plan regular leisure time and the lack of hospitality to interns' wives in the hospital were seen as stresses which could be considerably eased by appropriate administrative action. Being married and being a junior intern is the classic double bind situation. Intern.