Physician well-being in allergy and immunology

Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being

These are challenging times for health care executives. The health care field is experiencing unprecedented changes that threaten the survival of many health care organizations. To successfully navigate these challenges, health care executives need committed and productive physicians working in collaboration with organization leaders. Unfortunately, national studies suggest that at least 50% of...

The well-being of physician relationships.

Allergy and Immunology

The modern word immunity is derived from the Latin word immunis, which referred to exemption from military services, tax payments, or other public services. Throughout the medical history literature, the term immunity referred to those who were disease free or protected from getting disease. Immunity as a medical term defines a state of having sufficient biologic defenses to avoid infectious di...

Allergy and Immunology

Non-IgE mediated food allergies are caused by a reaction involving other components of the immune system apart from IgE antibodies. The reactions do not appear immediately after the ingestion of the food and usually relate to reactions in the gastrointestinal tract such as vomiting, bloating and diarrhoea. IgE-mediated means that IgE allergy antibodies are a cause of the allergic reaction to a ...

Physician Work Environment and Well-being: A Call for Papers.

In themiddle of the last century, the profession of medicine consolidated its identity firmly around an ideal: physicians were expected to be dedicated to thewelfare of their patients above all other considerations, committed to thepublicgood,and impervious to financial temptation or other self-interest. The insular training and longworkhours that set theprofessionapart frommostpeoples' experie...