Anaesthesiologists’ mental health is commonly overlooked and disregarded. Ensuring favourable professional well-being requires awareness, recognition and dedication for cultivating a healthy mindset. This tutorial discusses occupational related stress in anaesthesia, associated risk factors, coping capacities, individual and organisational initiatives to...

Physician well-being in a time of COVID-19

Preventing a Parallel Pandemic — A National Strategy to Protect Clinicians’ Well-Being

The link between health care worker fatigue and adverse events is well documented, with a substantial number of studies indicating that the practice of extended work hours contributes to high levels of worker fatigue and reduced productivity. These studies and...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General World Health Organization: Care for cancer, like so many other diseases, reflects the inequalities and inequities in our societies. The impact on children is devastating. Each year, an estimated 400 000 children are diagnosed with cancer...

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly ten million deaths in 2020. The cancer burden is growing globally, exerting tremendous physical, emotional and financial strain on individuals, families, societies and health systems. Many of these systems...

Given the recent emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the ensuing worldwide, widespread human-to-human transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic status for this virus and virus-related disease....