This Issue: International Issues, Infectious Diseases, Medical Liability, and Medical Home Ideas
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Professional liability issues in graduate medical education.
Resident physicians, attending physicians, and graduate medical education (GME) institutions share a collective responsibility to deliver safe and appropriate care to patients. The law does not offer concessions in quality of care to accommodate GME. Resident physicians are generally held to the same standard of care as attending physicians in their respective specialties. This principle encour...
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INTRODUCTION For seafarers it is essential that a medical guide leads them through the steps from being presented with a medical problem on board to the appropriate handling of the situation in a clear and straightforward way. Several medical guides are on the market. The best known one is the WHO publication — the International Medical Guide for ships, which was published in its third edition ...
متن کاملUnmet medical need in infectious diseases.
TO THE EDITOR—Multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections are rapidly increasing worldwide, and, unfortunately, few new antimicrobials capable of treating these infections are under development [1, 2]. The emergence of infections for which there are limited treatment options represents a critical unmet medical need. In October 2011, we electronically surveyed the 1356 members of the Emerging Infection...
متن کاملLiability and liability insurance for medical malpractice.
Physicians typically carry virtually complete malpractice insurance coverage. This contradicts standard theoretical predictions that under a negligence rule of liability there should be no demand for insurance, and insurance policies under moral hazard will contain co-payment provisions. It is argued that judicial 'errors' in defining negligence generate a demand for liability and legal defense...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1557-2625,1558-7118
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2010.06.100205