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Adverse professional life experiences may affect mental health among cardiologists

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Understanding how adverse professional life experiences affect the mental well-being of cardiologists is important. An unmet and equally important need is to design and implement strategies to prevent emotional harassment and discrimination at health-care workplaces and to effectively support cardiologists who have been exposed to adverse professional life experiences. These strategies are especially needed for female, younger or divorced cardiologists.

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  1. NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Maria Panagioti & Alexander Hondkinson

  2. NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Maria Panagioti & Alexander Hondkinson

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Panagioti, M., Hondkinson, A. Adverse professional life experiences may affect mental health among cardiologists. Nat Rev Cardiol 20, 287–288 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-023-00850-w

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