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LANCET
Volume 374, Issue 9702, Pages 1714-1721Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61424-0
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- Killam Resident Fellowship at the University of Calgary
- Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research
- Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
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When physicians are unwell, the performance of health-care systems can be suboptimum. Physician wellness might not only benefit the individual physician, it could also be vital to the delivery of high-quality health care. We review the work stresses faced by physicians, the barriers to attending to wellness, and the consequences of unwell physicians to the individual and to health-care systems. We show that health systems should routinely measure physician wellness, and discuss the challenges associated with implementation.
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