title: Stress and distress in middle age - The mental health of doctors.
abstract: In considering subject material of "Stress and distress" in a symposium devoted to emotional probelms of middle age, who better to consider than the doctor? What effects does the stress of medical practice have on the mental health of the practitioner and his family?
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008511:Medicine; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010820:Physicians; D012737:Sex Factors; D013038:Specialization; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States