BACKGROUND Anesthesiology is technically complex, caring for sicker patients with growing production pressure on clinicians. Wellbeing and a balanced lifestyle to prevent clinician burnout and improve patient safety have been increasingly recognized. This study assesses burnout and coping strategies in anesthesiologists in a metropolitan area of the Northeastern US. METHODS An anonymous onlin...

PURPOSE To improve resiliency and reduce burnout in nurses through implementation of the Healing Pathways program (University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore). Aims of this study include assessment of feasibility and acceptability and to explore changes in stress, coping, burnout, and mindfulness. DESIGN A single-group, pre-, posttest design of an 8-week program in which participant...

Most Virtual Worlds are still empty, because it costs too much to populate them. In this paper, we explain the main challenges to simulate Inhabited Virtual Worlds. We address specific problems such as perception, social behavior, collective behavior, interaction with objects. We also present a case study in the area of health emergency for non-professional.

Differences in the characteristics of behavior-based versus outcome-based salesforces are explored The most important differences between the two groups are intrinsic motivation and recognition motivation. The results indicate that professional competence, team orientation, risk aversion, sales support orientation, customer orientation and planning orientation are not significant, Behavior-base...

We compare the behavior of car mechanics and college students as sellers in experimental credence goods markets. Finding largely similar behavior, we note much more overtreatment by car mechanics, probably due to decision heuristics they learned in their professional training. JEL classifications: C91, D82, C72

We compare the behavior of car mechanics and college students as sellers in experimental credence goods markets. Finding largely similar behavior, we note much more overtreatment by car mechanics, probably due to decision heuristics they learned in their professional training. JEL classifications: C91, D82, C72

Dear Sir, Delhi witnessed the golden moment of amalgamation of four Indian oncological societies—Indian Association of Surgical Oncology, Indian Society of Medical and Pediatric oncology, Association of Radiation Oncologists of India, and Indian Society of Oncology in the form of Indian Cancer Congress (ICC) 2013. In the academic sanctity of ICC, it was absolutely disheartening to see a few del...

BACKGROUND Ineffective physician-nurse collaboration has been shown to cause work dissatisfaction among physicians and nurses and compromised the quality of patient care. AIM The review sought to explore: (1) attitudes of physicians and nurses toward physician-nurse collaboration; (2) factors affecting physician-nurse collaboration; and (3) strategies to improve physician-nurse collaboration....

OBJECTIVE This article presents a case report of a child with poor sensory processing and describes the disorders impact on the child's occupational behavior and the changes in occupational performance during 10 months of occupational therapy using a sensory integrative approach (OT-SI). METHOD Retrospective chart review of assessment data and analysis of parent interview data are reviewed. P...

Health practitioners work under fiduciary constraint, and are obligated to favour patient needs over all others and in particular their own. The principles of professionalism demand that professionals take great care to ensure that boundaries are maintained safely to provide an optimal setting in facilitating patient care. Boundary violations cause serious harm to the patient. Any romantic or s...