Physicians, specifically, deal with numerous and varied stress-ors: long work hours, unreasonable work conditions, and workenvironment (many patients and too little time for each patient),sleep disorders because of night shifts, loss of autonomy (the physician is forced to cope with the economic, social, and legalimplications of his/her decisions; patients are better informed dueto exposure to the internet), lack of balance between work andpersonal life, isolation (a physician cannot discuss patients withcolleagues because of confidentiality issues), relatively low payin comparison to what is expected in return for the long yearsof training and long work hours, low promotion options, profes-sional responsibility, dealing with illness and death on a daily basis,a sense of failure (when a patient is not cured), fear of lawsuitsfor medical malpractice, and more