Stress is a necessary and unavoidable concomitant of daily living-necessary because without some stress we would be listless and apathetic creatures, and unvoidable because it relates to any external event, be it pleasurable or anxiety-producing.Severe stress has been correlated with coronary disease, respriratory problems, backaches, high pressure and other psychosomatic illnesss, to the extent that for most people stress is a loaded term that connotes unhealthy or harmful conditions, i.e. a disease or illness. In truth, however, stress can also motivate and invigorate and enable people to achieve far more that they thought themselves capable of doing. High stress jobs can lead to more burnout than normal ones.Taxicab drivers,law enforcement personnet,air traffic controllers, musicians, teachers, lawyers, emergency service workers and high technology professional seem more prone to burnout than others. General practitioners seem to have the highest proportion of bornout cases.