The Call of 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 ...

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

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...

Call of duty: the effects of phone calls on blood donor motivation.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the long-term effects of interventions aimed at increasing turnout among voluntary blood donors. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS We use a retrospective natural experiment with all 40,653 donors who were repeatedly invited to blood drives in Zurich, Switzerland, between 2010 and 2013. The intervention is a quasi-randomized phone call informing donors of a current shor...

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...