Doctors’ health and performance

Concern about doctors’ health has increased over the past decade. This is related to a growing awareness that their health problems are often work-related. A work-related health problem is defined by the Health and Safety Executive in the UK as any illness, disability or other physical problem which reduces, either temporarily or permanently, the functioning of an individual and which has been caused, in whole or in part, by the working conditions of that individual (see Ghodse, 2000).