Stress and the medical practitioner

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Abstract
There are stresses peculiar to being a medical practitioner, and superadded stressors applicable to women doctors. Some are extrinsic, some intrinsic. An interacting model is suggested: stresses that are inherent in the practice of medicine precipitate mental disorder in those predisposed to it; practice is particularly stressful to the ambitious, inflexible individual with a family history of mental disturbance and unhappy or unstable childhood.

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