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How Compassion Fatigue Threatens Doctors and Other Healthcare Workers
Moral distress, compassion fatigue, and burnout—these are the effects of long-term stressors on healthcare workers, the price of providing care. A recent survey by the UK organization MDDUS highlights how serious the situation is. The data should serve as a warning to professional bodies and healthcare management in other countries, including the Czech Republic. Legislative, organizational, and educational interventions are necessary to prevent the harmful impact of exhausted healthcare workers on the quality of care provided.
Good, Bad, or Ugly? What's the Deal with Eggs?
You've probably heard that we should throw away egg yolks and eat only the whites to avoid high…
Women who changed medicine: Groundbreaking discoveries even without a Nobel Prize
Women scientists have contributed to medicine with a number of discoveries that, although they have…
Women Who Changed Medicine: 13 Nobel Prize Laureates
Between 1901 and 2024, 976 individuals—including only 65 women—and 28 organizations received the…
An Orange a Day to Keep Depression Away? The Secret Lies in the Microbiome
A recent study published in the journal Microbiome described a potentially protective role of…
Are female doctors better than male doctors? Data from observational studies give clues
A recent study published in the journal Microbiome described a potentially protective role of…
New method promises personalized diagnostics and more effective diabetes treatment
Type 2 diabetes is a heterogeneous disease, whose pathophysiology results from various disruptions…
Computer Vision and 3D Printing Can Aid in the Insertion of Intramedullary Nails for Long Bone Fractures
Intramedullary nails are one of the fundamental tools used in the fixation of long bone fractures.…
Another Point for CRISPR: Targeted Treatment Using RNA Editing
A technology with a name more reminiscent of a bag of chips than gene therapy received its first…
Use of Individualized 3D Printed Models in the Diagnosis and Treatment Planning of Cervical Cancer
3D printing is increasingly gaining importance in various fields of medicine. One of these fields…