Category: Health and Wellness

Dec 14
COVID Patients’ Crackpot Theories Take Toll on Healthcare Workers

In addition to numerous other pandemic stressors, clinicians must care for disbelieving patients while they see continued disregard for masks and social distancing as part of a calculated disinformation campaign.

Dec 10
Uber Eats and Peloton Subscriptions? Some Creative Ways Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians Fight Burnout

Despite the scope of the problem, there is plenty organizations can do to help healthcare workers.

Nov 30
Steps to Physician Wellness and Resiliency

This webinar looks at aspects of physician wellness and discusses depression, suicide, anxiety, substance use warning signs, and when to ask for professional assistance.

Nov 25
Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of the Pandemic

Clinicians across the country are struggling both mentally and financially as the pandemic enters a new phase with record case numbers.

Nov 17
‘Exhausted’: Tsunami of COVID-19 Cases Pushes Health Workers to the Breaking Point

The growing surge of COVID-19 patients is not only filling up available hospital beds, but it is straining the health care workers that are needed to actually treat the patients, to the point of debilitating burnout.

Nov 10
Don’t Wait for Stressed Clinicians to Ask for Help, Experts Say

When it comes to employees, looking for trouble is good policy.

Nov 09
Self-Care a Must for Nurses to Combat Compassion Fatigue

A healthy work/life balance and self-care tactics are vital resources that serve as a barrier to compassion fatigue.

Nov 03
Sleep Disorder Among Doctors Associated with Burnout

This study suggests that undiagnosed and untreated sleep disorders are associated with occupational burnout among health care providers.

Oct 30
Survey Shows COVID-19 is Taking a Toll on Med Students

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered medical students’ experience in 2020, and many believe it will affect how they practice medicine long after the pandemic subsides.

Oct 30
Coronavirus: Embrace Post-traumatic Growth as Response to Pandemic

With a positive approach to change, healthcare workers and their organizations can emerge from the pandemic stronger and more resilient.

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