Is Today's 21st Century Burnout 19th Century's Neurasthenia?
- 1 September 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 207 (9), 773-777
- https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0000000000001014
Abstract
This essay addresses the relevance of the concept of “burnout” to concerns about the mental and physical health of today's physicians and those training to join the medical profession. Comparisons are made with the diagnosis of neurasthenia in the 19th century. Social contributors to and the influence of stress on the phenomena in each instance are presented.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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