Lots of professions are demanding, but medicine entails sky-high stress levels almost all the time. Dealing with grueling hours and furiously hectic days, ailing patients and their distraught families, grim diagnoses and the enormous responsibility that so many physicians routinely bear can seem unendurable at times. Although resorting to drugs to relieve all that pressure…

If the nurse licensing board summons you to a disciplinary hearing, take time to think about what that means. As a school kid you may have been summoned to the principal’s office, yet, as a child, you still keep the right to an education. As a nurse, you do not have the right to a…