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Charles L. Pelton, MD
Aberdeen, SD

JAMA. 1986;256(4):472.

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To the Editor.—

I was very pleased to read the two articles^1,2 on emotional impairment of physicians in the March 7, 1986, issue of JAMA. Thank you for presenting this material and recognizing that physicians do indeed have problems with emotional impairment. As a physician who was once emotionally impaired, I involve myself in the treatment of emotional impairment. I am now teaching others how to get the information they need and how to apply it in their personal as well as their professional lives.

However, I would like clarification of what the authors mean by "emotional impairment." I know what emotional impairment meant for me, my wife, and my children, but I do not know what it means to the authors.

I also wish to point out that the health care profession is being promoted as an adversary system, based on pathology and fault finding, similar to our . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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