This former surgeon general says there’s a ‘loneliness epidemic’ and work is partly to blame

Click Here to Read:   This former surgeon general says there’s a ‘loneliness epidemic’ and work is partly to blame By Jena McGregor in the Washington Post on October 4, 2017.

Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy says he thinks “of loneliness as an epidemic because it affects a great number of people in our country but also because one person’s loneliness can have an impact on another person.” (Charles Dharapak/AP)