Call to Duty

Above and beyond...the call of duty.

Of course, from childhood to forever, we are always thought to love reading. It is not only reading the lesson book but also reading everything good is the choice of getting new inspirations. Religion, sciences, politics, social, literature, and fictions will enrich you for not only one aspect. Having more aspects to know and understand will lead you become someone more precious. Yea, becoming ...

16-hour call duty schedules: the Quebec experience

Since 1 July 2012, as a result of a labour arbitration ruling in the province of Quebec and the subsequent agreement negotiated by the Fédération des médecins résidents du Québec, all 3,400 medical residents training in Quebec have been on a 16-hour duty schedule for in-house calls. This is a major change within medical teaching sites, as well as a professional and educational challenge for phy...

Leadership in Medicine: who will answer the call of duty?

Public health. Gun control agenda is a call to duty for scientists.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 339 25 JANUARY 2013 381 When President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious gun control agenda last week, attention was riveted on his proposals to prevent guns and ammo from falling into the wrong hands. But the administration also moved to get a better understanding of the root causes of gun violence. Declaring the roughly 30,000 fi rearm-related homicides and sui...

Misapplication of the Tarasoff duty to driving cases: a call for a reframing of theory.

In the years since the original Tarasoff cases created a new duty for psychotherapists toward third parties harmed by patients' violence, a series of cases nationwide--so called "driving cases"--have applied Tarasoff-like reasoning to situations where a patient injured others while driving a car. Our thesis in this paper is that such application is inappropriate since it represents an unjustifi...