Word: burnout
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...wear [Birkenstocks] not because I'm a hippie burnout, but because they're the most comfortable shoes you can buy," says Marc C. Foster, a rising senior at Lexington High School, though he admits that his choice of footwear may be directed by his parents' "clog genes hanging...
...story comes from Pat Conroy's autobiographical novel The Water Is Wide, recalling how, as a '60s burnout, he turned to teaching deprived black children on a backward island off the South Carolina coast. In the time- honored tradition of teacher-student tales, this man whom the kids call Conrack enriches not only their lives but also his own. Spurning conventional curriculum and methods, he gets his young charges to enthuse about his hero, Beethoven, and his other hero, soul singer James Brown. He instructs them to take pride in America's history and also in Africa's. Touchingly...
...business where success is fleeting and burnout comes fast, Carson's durability is not only unprecedented, it is almost unimaginable. An Iowa-born, Nebraska-raised standup comic and host of a popular game show, Who Do You Trust?, Carson replaced Jack Paar as host of NBC's Tonight show on Oct. 1, 1962. His tenure on the program has lasted for two-thirds of the time that national TV has existed. He has hosted the show long enough to have had Judy Garland, Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford and Hubert Humphrey as guests. If Jay Leno lasts as long...
...patient could have told him so, but many educators believe the direct experience of such miseries will leave an enduring sense of sympathy. Doctors have long defended taking a cool, dispassionate approach to patient care, arguing that it helps preserve objective judgment and protect against burnout. But critics disagree. "By concentrating on symptoms and lab data, we ignore a wealth of information that can affect patients' well-being," observes Dr. Simon Auster at the Uniformed Services medical school. Moreover, he says, "it takes less energy to get close to a patient than to maintain a distance." Auster warns, however, that...
According to a 1983 Newsweek poll, one out of eight college students has seriously contemplated killing herself or himself as a way of dealing with stress, burnout, depression or anxiety...