Stress: does what doesn’t kill you make you strong?

Canadian data that would enable effective evidence-based management of stress and burnout remains sparse.

A national research strategy, followed by a national action plan that sets standards for services and expectations for our organizations, would go a long way in a positive direction. A caring society invests in the physical and mental health of its people, ensuring social harmony and economic growth. To sustain it, it must enact laws that engender management practices that don’t kill us but make us strong.Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY VISHWANATH BABA AND DON PETHER

October 7, 2019

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger; so goes a popular song. When it comes to stress what makes you stronger will also kill you. Stress is necessary to keep life itself in play, but in excess it leads to morbidity and mortality. So, what is it? We often feel restless, anxious, tense. In other...

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