Physician Fatigue

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Evaluation and Treatment -- American Family Physician

www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 1083 Other disorders, such as fibromyalgia, have overlapping symptoms with CFS, suggesting that both diseases may share common physiologic abnormalities. Chronic fatigue syndrome affects both genders, all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic populations, and can begin as early as five years of age. Although previous reports showed a predominance of CFS in...

Vitalizing physician-scientists: it's time to overcome our imagination fatigue.

Doctor fails: early warning signs of physician fatigue?

1Program for Clinical Research, Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143 0808, USA; 2UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; 3Physician Moms Group; 4Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford Medicine, CA, USA; 5Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergen...

Sleep and fatigue countermeasures for the neurology resident and physician.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Fragmented sleep, prolonged work hours, misalignment of sleep-wake cycles, and an expectation to make medical decisions when alertness levels are reduced are pervasive in neurology residency training. Sleep loss in residency training can lead to cognitive and psychosocial impairment and accidents, compromise patient care, and reduce the trainee's quality of life. Neurology res...

Associations between fatigue attributions and fatigue, health, and psychosocial work characteristics: a study among employees visiting a physician with fatigue.

AIMS To study associations between characteristics of employees active at work and making a fatigue related visit to the general practitioner (GP) or occupational physician (OP) in terms of fatigue, physical health problems, mental health problems, psychosocial work characteristics, and attributions of their fatigue complaints. METHODS Self report questionnaires from the Maastricht Cohort Stu...