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Contrary to common belief, the study does not cite surgeon fatigue as a reason for forgetting part of the equipment inside of a patient but explains that the mistakes largely result from the stress arising from emergencies or complications discovered on the operating table...
...long hours of study, laughter sends endorphins to your brain, allowing you to fight through the stress of study and plug on a little longer. Rarely will you fall into laughing spurts alone at your desk. But with a study group, in the few relaxed minutes you get to spend each hour, you have someone to ask whether or not your Dickey-Fuller should be augmented...
...what time we would save if we all found a good place to work, and then did our work in the amount of time it takes. We might de-stress and enjoy our recreation activities, and—gasp—be better students. We could even have time to “process” or “absorb” our schoolwork or “sleep.” Instead, we procrastinate for seven hours with peers who are hanging out, working out, or catching a meal. And then it is midnight the night before...
...China's police claim to solve 85% of the country's regular murder cases. But they're way behind when it comes to serial killings, a seemingly universal form of evil that flourishes most in societies under stress. The inexperience of Chinese investigators in this field was vividly exposed by a gang of four murderers in the central province of Henan who evaded capture for months in 2000. Their modus operandi was to break into homes using battering rams. Once inside, they killed the inhabitants, frequently castrating male victims with cleavers. They left behind calling cards: cloth masks with...
When the threat passes, epinephrine and norepinephrine levels drop, but if danger comes too often they can damage the arteries. Chronic lowlevel stress keeps the glucocorticoids in circulation, leading to a weakened immune system, loss of bone mass, suppression of the reproductive system and memory problems