First Do No Self Harm

Keeping doctors happy and productive requires a thorough understanding of the systemic causes and consequences of physician stress as well as the role of resilience in maintaining a healthy mental state. The pressure of making life-or-death decisions along with those associated with the day-to-day challenges of doctoring can lead to poor patient care and communication patient dissatisfaction absenteeism reductions in productivity job dissatisfaction and lowered retention. <p/>This edited volume will provide a comprehensive tool for understanding and promoting physician stress resilience. Specifically the book has six interrelated objectives that collectively would advance the evidence-based understanding of (1) the extent to which physicians experience and suffer from work-related stress; (2) the various manifestations syndromes and reaction patterns directly caused by work-related stress; (3) the degree to which physicians are resilient in that they are successful or not successful in coping with these stressors; (4) the theories and direct evidence that account for the resilience; (5) the programs during and following medical school which help to promote resilience; and (6) the agenda for future theory research and intervention efforts for the next generation of physicians.<br>