Employment and stress

Tension and anxiety are part of the adventure of work. Management and labor are working closely to make the workplace safe and the job rewarding, but growing numbers of bureaucrats and societies cannot replace the family physician. Bureaucrats and regulations are ever-changing. The worker must know how to use emotions to advantage, and remain on the job from teens to retirement. Pain and stress need not produce the diseases of stress. `Tough love' techniques, organized by labor-management teams, confining their interests to the individual's problems, will flourish and cut out the family physician unless he works closely with these successes. Family physicians are encouraged to join Boards of Trade and Safety Councils to gain experience in prevention.