Research has shown that a physician’s experience of stress in a clinical setting has wide spread effects on the patient, hospital, and themselves. Physicians undergoing high levels of stress are more likely to change jobs, place less emphasis on teamwork, have higher burnout rates, and report less practice autonomy. Even more significantly, physicians who work […]
E-cigarettes: a Growing Problem with a Growing Body of Evidence for Harm
In the first half of this decade, e-cigarettes were advertised and touted as a healthy option for smokers, essentially billed as “just the nicotine in healthy water vapor without all the harmful contents of tobacco smoke.” However, such claims are deja vu from the tobacco industry. Cigarettes themselves were touted as “good for your throat” […]
