HOW stressed is your doctor? A large-scale test of wearable stress monitors, announced this week, is set to provide some answers.
Boston start-up Neumitra will test its wearable devices with 1000 or more doctors and nurses in January next year. It will measure stress levels at two of Boston’s biggest hospitals – Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess.
“Stress can impact on the common cold all the way up to a heart attack,” says Aditi Nerurkar, a stress management clinician at Beth Israel Deaconess. Although we know stress affects the health of patients, medical professionals themselves have a culture of stoicism about their health, she says.
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