Figure 1.

Both patients and providers come to the health care setting with their own personal stressors, including finances, health, discrimination, among many others. In the health care setting, additional stressors are potentially imposed, as shown. One of those is how media and other environmental factors will affect them, often subconsciously. The providers will be burdened by a heavy workload in a time-constrained encounter. They will undoubtedly feel the pressure to stay on time and manage their workloads as well as be affected by interactions with staff and other patients. Finally, they likely have had some media exposure during the day, even briefly.