Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic

![][1] David Wainwright, Michael Calnan Open University Press, £17.99, pp 240 ISBN 0 335 20707 3 Rating: ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] ![Graphic][4] ![Graphic][5] A general practitioner interviewed by the authors of this book confesses: “I think they [GPs] are a very over-complaining lot. And I made a decision some weeks ago to not read Pulse , GP or Medeconomics . Every week [they] go on about all the hours that GPs put in, how stressed they are. They complain all the time, so I think, why read them? They make you feel unhappy, so the only magazine that … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [4]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif [5]: /embed/inline-graphic-4.gif