This week in health news, from UC San Diego’s Scott LaFee
In most surveys, most doctors say they are generally pleased with their lives and professions. But it turns out there are degrees of contentment. In a 2020 survey on physician lifestyle and happiness, specialists in rheumatology were determined to be the happiest of doctors, followed by general surgery, public health and preventive medicine, allergy and immunology and orthopedics. The least happy specialties were neurology, critical care, internal medicine, gastroenterology and endocrinology.
What makes a physician happy? It’s not primarily compensation. It’s their relationship with patients and a sense of doing good. More than one-quarter of happy doctors said patient gratitude and relationships were the most rewarding part of their job; 23 percent said it was feeling that they were making the world a better place.
Some forms of hormone therapy for breast cancer, such as tamoxifen, can run for five to 10 years in order to help prevent a recurrence of breast cancer. That much time obviously and significantly affects a woman’s childbearing years. These hormone treatments can also make it harder for women to conceive.
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