Doctors Showing Up Sick to Work, and Other Links

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  1. brian says:

    Getting enough sleep is probably a bigger factor in leading a happy and healthy live for most people. But I’m just guessing.

  2. Mike Ainslie says:

    Remember that the second mouse gets the cheese, so being slow has its benefits.

  3. Alex says:

    If you’re a doctor and your desire to help patients drives you to show up sick, thereby possibly endangering them, then perhaps its time to stop being so zealous. A lot of doctors and med-students that i know have this “Superman” attitude; that if they don’t care for these patients then no one will. Seems like a type of noble narcissism.

  4. Devon Herrick says:

    The early bird gets the worm — or at least it’s happier and healthier.

    There may be other explanations regarding the correlation between early risers and health/happiness. People who are sick and depressed would likely have a harder time getting out of bed. Sooner or later they might rise — but the process would undoubtedly take longer. So, maybe the explanation is that people who are both healthy and happy have the ability to get up early. Those that are sick and depressed require more motivation to pull themselves up out of bed. In other words, there is an effect; but it’s not causal.

  5. Studebaker says:

    “Doctors think it’s OK to show up to work sick.”

    Maybe doctors reason that, since all their patients feel it’s OK to come to the office sick, doctors should be able to do likewise. Plus, doctors probably correctly blame their illness on their patients, who passed the contagion on to them. Turnabout is fair play – also it might drum up more business.

  6. Melvin says:

    I suspect that some people are genetically wired to be morning people, but I have nothing to back that up with.

  7. Evaeve says:

    If a solution is found, it will be found in the labs of hgeihr education; Pharma won’t be involved, certainly. Beatrice Golomb (one of your own) and others at Harvard and NYU are trying to pin down the culprit(s) involved, and it looks like that may include genetic markers that predispose patients to the more serious side effects. FYI -I use a Google ALERT function which posts, to my email, internet activity based on keywords; MITOCHONDRIA brought you to my attention.

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