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Will 2025 Be the Year of Patient Burnout?

As we look toward the new year, a key step is bringing together stakeholders to better understand how burnout can affect a person’s ability to engage in self-care and collaborative care — and how to develop proactive, person-centered solutions that get to the root causes of distress before they lead to detrimental disengagement.

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Does stress affect how empathetic we are toward strangers?

Generally speaking, we feel more empathy for people we know than we do with strangers. But it turns out that stress hormones can make that disconnect even greater – and it’s not just in humans. A Canadian and American research team,  who published their findings in Current Biology, have found that drugs that reduce stress […]