Beside the traditional stress of the medical profession (namely the stress of time, dealing with tiresome patients, non-success in therapy, outgrowing of profession into the private life), during the last decades doctors have to cope with the growing instrumentalization and byrocratization of medicine. It may impair the personal relations of doctors and their attitude to patients. Medical doctors are more than other professionals under the pressure of worries and potential risks and therefore they are more anxious. The largest health risk for the medical professionals appears the burnout syndrome. It can be characterised as a loss of the positive relation to himself and to surrounding and the loss of the working competence.

        Key words: physician stress, physician burnout, physician carrier.