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From the dawn of civilization those practicing the healing arts have met with frustrations, and the modern physician is no exception; it is only that the quality of his frustration has changed. The physician finds himself much in demand and he is torn between the exhaustion of overwork and the guilt of not fulfilling what he believes are all his obligations. He often works at a pace incompatible with home life, a life in the community apart from medicine or in fact any opportunity to enjoy the fruits of his labor. His anxieties which arise from this state of affairs...
...staff of seven part-time counselors are often working full time including week-ends to handle the influx of students. And if the present rate of eighty per cent increased student use over the last five years continues, the Bureau, at its present size, faces serious future conditions of overwork...
From Delhi, four doctors, including a heart specialist, were flown to his bedside. The first medical bulletins were evasive, referred to overwork and his need for rest. At last the doctors let it be known that Nehru had lost the feeling in his "left limbs," finally admitted that his whole left side was affected. It was, friends admitted, paralysis...
...decline of mental powers with age, the psychologists conclude, is more likely to result from the brain's getting too little rather than too much work. The brain simply does not get exhausted from overwork, though the individual may get worn out from emotional strain associated with his effort...
...overperformance as much as Pampeana suffers from cliches. Griffes (1884-1920), after studying piano and composition in Berlin, taught elementary music in a boy's school near New York; he could compose only during his leisure, though the rapid evolution of his oevre suggests a substantial talent, death from overwork at the age of 36 prevented him from developing a style really his own. Thus the Poem blends impressionistic vagaries, romantic rhapsodies, and mitigated marches into a staple of flautists everywhere...