Word: medicale
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One in eight medical school students is clinically depressed, two Chicago researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study, which followed 121 students at Chicago's Rush Medical College, found that 12 percent of the doctors in training suffer from clinical depression, which causes sleep disturbance, pessimism and a sense of failure. Only five percent of the general population is believed to have the disease, the researchers...
The report's authors concluded that half of those who drop out of medical school are in good academic standing but are clinically depressed. "Those most likely to experience depression are those who are warm, outgoing, caring--characteristics important for a physician," said Rush Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry David...
But Dr. Martin J. Wohl, director of Medical Area Health Services for Harvard, said the study's conclusions do not apply to Harvard because the Medical School already asks students to see a resident psychologist if they are under stress. He added that the school's psychologists "see a good...
During the past several years, Massachusetts revenue caps for hospitals--which put a ceiling on the amount a hospital can increase its budget in a year--have forced hospitals to juggle their budgets, often cutting important programs. Because of the stringent state caps, many local hospitals have done away with...