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The medical challenge of coping with stress.

GRADUATION FROM medical school-what a terrific feeling. For each of us it is the time to celebrate the completion of a difficult step in personal growth. To achieve this step we have had to spend many years working very hard. Today our school pays homage to this diligence. Our medical degree is an honor, and we are very proud. During our four years we have acquired a tremendous amount of knowledge about the diagnosis, pathophysiology and treatment of many diseases. Also, we realize there is a lot more to learn. Many challenges face us. Today I would like to focus on one of these: the medical challenge of coping with stress. What is stress? Dr. Hans Selye, a noted physician who has spent his career in stress research, defines stress as "the nonspecific response of the body to any demand made upon it."') But most of us associate the word stress with high levels of nervous tension, frustration and anxiety, and psychological hang-ups. Many people today are on an emotional starvation diet-a shortage of love, understanding and involvement. The reasons for these stresses are legion: taxes, unemployment, illness and now, for us in California, the drought. Dr. Norman Q. Brill reminds us that the improved quality of life over the past 25 years, resulting from impressive advances in technology and medical care, seems to have been accompanied by disturbed interpersonal relationships, more anxiety about employment and security, greatly increased divorce and crime rates, and increased human unhappiness.2