Is it real or is it memorex? Discerning whether job-related stress or mental illness is causing physician impairment

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-9

  Setness, Peter A ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANGER; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RAGE; REVIEW; STRESS;

EID: 0037236801     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2003.01.1364     Document Type: Review

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