Surgeons' emotional experience of their everyday practice - A qualitative study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Orri, Massimiliano ^a,b,c   Revah Lévy, Anne ^d,e,f   Farges, Olivier ^c,f  

^a INSERM U1178   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER VICTOR DUPOUY   (France)

^e PARIS DESCARTES UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CULTURAL PRESSURE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEAR; FEMALE; FRANCE; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STRESS; SURGEON; TIME MANAGEMENT; TIME PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SURGEONS;

EID: 84952333294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143763     Document Type: Article

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