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Like we needed a study to prove this? But all joking aside, this is a serious issue and extremely costly for the employee, employer, health care and family.  The issues of stress are real and deadly. Stress and burn out are NO laughing matter. Check it out:

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An increase in job burnout over a period of 18 months is associated with a 2.09-fold increased risk of developing musculoskeletal pain during the subsequent 18 months, according to a study led by Galit Armon of Tel Aviv University focusing on 1,704 healthy people. The researchers say high job demands may increase muscle tension and decrease micropauses in muscle activity, leading to pain.

You can download the PDF Report Here.

As many of us experience, stress is not always a fun or welcome emotion. Stress at work may be inevitable but it doesn’t have to be detrimental. Shawn Achor talks about this issue in his  article “Making Stress Work For You. In it, Shawn discusses how many studies show that stress can enhance your performance by causing your brain to use more of its capabilities, improve memory and intelligence, and increase productivity. He cautions  that you should not seek out stress — obviously, less of it is better. But, make the stress you do have work for you. Recognize that it isn’t all bad and develop an awareness of why you feel frazzled. Then, redirect the energy behind your worry toward productivity. Re-framing stress as a potential positive can reduce the harm it causes.

You can read more from Shawn’s article by clicking here!

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As if we didn’t already know this….

Excessive use of the Internet, cell phones, and other technologies can cause us to become more impatient, impulsive, forgetful and narcissistic according to a new book on “e-personality,” say psychiatrist Elias Aboujaoude, MD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of Stanford University’s impulse control and obsessive-compulsive disorder clinics, in a new book, Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality.

Here is a very interesting view of the organization and process flow of the new Health care systems under Obama. This is such a mess I cant imagine what fool organized this. No wonder it was a 3,000 page bill! Obviously, the idiots who devised a new health care system that looks like this are people who has no clue of private sector business, efficiency, optimization, best practices, cost control, supply chain management, efficient and effective management, and dynamic customer service. But then again, we are talking about the Federal Government right? If this type of idiocy was applied to real world business, you would be out of business.  Unbelievable.

Here are a couple of data points from a new analysis of this debacle.

In addition to capturing the massive expansion of government and the overwhelming complexity of new regulations and taxes, the chart portrays:

• $569 billion in higher taxes;
• $529 billion in cuts to Medicare;
• swelling of the ranks of Medicaid by 16 million;
• 17 major insurance mandates; and
• the creation of two new bureaucracies with powers to impose future rationing: the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Independent Payments Advisory Board.

You can down load a PDF of this chart by clicking here:

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You can read the press release by clicking here: