While used to change, physicians don’t necessarily embrace it, notes 

, national director of clinical consulting for The Chartis Group, a healthcare consulting firm. 

“Physicians in general don’t tolerate uncertainty very well,” says Werner. “We work in a field accustomed to facts and information and things that are tangible. Now we find ourselves in a period where things are really pretty unclear and our comfort level as a profession with this level of unknown is a bit challenged.”

In a time and profession of everchanging realities, managing your response to the unknown in your professional and personal life is critical.

Below, Werner offers five strategies for physicians:

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Medicine, like life, is everchanging. Here’s some strategies for abating stress in your practice.