Fulfilling Our Social Mandate

Patient safety: fulfilling our commitment.

T he need to focus on increasing patient safety is an issue of which we are all aware. The two major plastic surgery organizations, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), have actively promoted patient safety in their respective publications, meetings, and public education. In fact, they have urged patients to seek out boa...

Our fallen peers: a mandate for change.

OBJECTIVE The author identifies and seeks to remove barriers contributing to physician/medical students' decisions NOT to seek mental health care. METHODS Following a cluster of medical student and physician suicides in one medical community, medical trainees anonymously shared their views regarding seeking mental health treatment in light of the current disclosure requirements for medical li...

Fulfilling the PEPFAR mandate: a more equitable use of PEPFAR resources across global health

As PEPFAR moves beyond its "emergency stage," it should now help support a more sustainable development mode, including an equitable platform for meeting a broad range of priority health needs, while continuing to pursue the goal of an AIDS-free generation.

Self - fulfilling beliefs about social status *

Human beings care a lot about being viewed as ‘smart’. This paper defines social status as the public beliefs about one’s ‘smartness’ inferred from one’s publicly observed social mobility experience. This status motive can easily generate multiple equilibria based upon self-fulfilling beliefs. It also tends to amplify the inequality of economic success between agents with different social origi...

When it comes to new technologies, are you fulfilling your professional mandate?