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BJA Advance Access originally published online on August 17, 2007
British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007 99(4):453-456; doi:10.1093/bja/aem234
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Reaching the parts that are hard to reach: expanding the scope of professional education in anaesthesia

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Previous work by Larsson and colleagues1 has outlined how young and inexperienced Swedish anaesthetists have feelings of deep inadequacy and loneliness in the face of difficult clinical situations, and often feel unsupported by their seniors. I am sure that this will ring true for colleagues in other countries too. This is unsatisfactory because they cannot learn well when stressed, and this also leads to concerns about recruiting doctors into the specialty if there is a perception that the working life of anaesthetists is more difficult than it needs to be. This theme is developed in this issue of British Journal of Anaesthesia as Larsson and colleagues report an interview-based investigation into the sources of stress in the work of established specialist anaesthetists and their strategies for coping with them.2 In this editorial, I would like to explore the specific issue of how stress and personality interact in anaesthesia, but then . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Stress and anaesthetists

Stress management as a professional skill

A. F. Smith

Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Lancaster, UK

E-mail: andrew.f.smith@mbht.nhs.uk


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