How realistic is it to expect health care workers to model mental, physical, and spiritual health? If Americans tend to be overweight, underactive workaholics who experience burnout, why should health care workers be any different?

I have mixed feelings regarding this topic. Data showing physicians are healthier than the general population is plentiful; however, that may not apply to other health care workers (Pittman, 2012). On one hand, health care workers are human so it is unrealistic to hold them to a higher standard, even if they do attain the knowledge and often observe the detrimental consequences that certain habits/characteristics have on the human body. Not to mention, in most circumstances health care workers are subject to high levels of stress and many work long and...