The influence of telemedicine on the nature and content of doctor-patient communication stems from both its technical and its interpersonal aspects. While the technical aspects are concerned with the communication technologies used and the clinical processes enabled by those technologies, the interpersonal aspects are concerned with relationships between system personnel, providers and patients...

To the Editor: On the basis of the conclusion that more than 50% of US physicians suffer from burnout, Melnick and Powsner and Shanafelt and Noseworthy underlined the importance of taking systemic action to reduce the risk of the syndrome by improving conditions under which physicians work. To effectively deal with the issue of job stress, we think that a critical step is to understand burnout ...

INTRODUCTION The educational environment (EE) is related to satisfaction and achievement. A high prevalence of professional burnout (BO) syndrome has been reported in the residency. The objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between EE and the presence of burnout in residency programs at a university hospital. POPULATION AND METHODS Residents from five programs at Hospital It...

HYPOTHESIS With the introduction of the newly mandated restrictions on resident work hours, we expected improvement in subjective feelings of personal accomplishment and lessened emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. DESIGN Residents and faculty members completed an anonymous online Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey (3rd ed; Consulting Psychologist Press Inc, Palo Alto, Ca...

Emotional stimuli may draw attention to such an extent that they hamper the processing of subsequent signals, a phenomenon termed emotion-induced blindness (EIB). As depersonalization is associated with self-reported attenuated emotional responses, the present study explored whether individuals scoring high on the Cambridge Depersonalization Scale (CDS; n=15) exhibit a diminished EIB effect rel...

The recent positive psychology movement has given a new impetus to revisiting the perennial problem of teacher burnout, suggesting that intervention efforts could be more productively shifted from coping with symptoms or components of burnout to promoting or enhancing the antithesis of burnout. It is argued that the components of burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced sen...

Dear Editor, Stress is a feeling of strain and pressure while burnout is a multidimensional syndrome comprising emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation (establishment of distant and cynical relationships) and a diminished sense of personal accomplishment.1 Psychological stress and burnout harm physician health and work performance, and can lead to poorer patient care.2 Relatively little data ar...

This paper focuses on some of the issues that arise when one treats notions such as depersonalization, delegitimization and dehumanization as social practices. It emphasizes the importance of: (a) understanding depersonalizing, delegitimizing and dehumanizing constructions as embedded in descriptions of located spatial activities and moral standings in the world and (b) invoking and building a ...