Citation

Grubb BP. Card. Electrophysiol. Rev. 2003; 7(1): 85-87.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers)

DOI

10.1023/a:1023659511108

PMID

12766526

Abstract

In addition to the well-publicized problems with reimbursement and manpower in electrophysiology, there is a less well publicized crisis brewing in regards to physicians' social and mental health. The last decades have witnessed tremendous increases in divorce, alcoholism, substance abuse, and suicide among physicians. While the causative factors involved are complex and varied they are, in part, related to a loss of the "soul" in modern medical practice. The following paper tries to address the factors behind this loss and suggests ways to correct it.

Language: en

Keywords

Attitude of Health Personnel; Clinical Competence; Electrophysiology; Humans; Internship and Residency; Physician Impairment; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians