Altering the Applicable Standard of Care

Altering the applicable standard of care.

Identifying the essential characteristics that distinguish a profession from other service occupations is a common exercise. Perhaps a better way to judge the degree of professionalism, however, is with reference to the ease or difficulty of precisely specifying a provider's performance obligations in advance of the provision of services. For most medical services, the range of possible exigenc...

Standard care, standards for care, or standard of care?

WHEN does a physician’s medical care qualify as “standard?” Is the standard set by scientific evidence, by what physicians typically do, by what physicians regard as minimally acceptable in the same or similar circumstance, or by what panels of experts believe to be best practice? In this issue of the journal, Benzon et al. present evidence that calls into question a recommendation contained in...

Occlusion: the standard of care.

Journal of the Canadian Dental Association " A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up familiar with it. " — Max Planck (German physicist 1858-1947) A s a group, dentists are the specialists of occlusion. We are responsible for the physiological harmony of the ...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

Endodontic standard of care.