Which are overriding during a pandemic: Professional healthcare duties or personal interests?

Accounting for personal and professional choices for pandemic influenza vaccination amongst English healthcare workers.

BACKGROUND Healthcare workers (HCWs) are encouraged to get vaccinated during influenza pandemics to reduce their own, and patients', risk of infection, and to encourage their patients to get immunised. Despite extensive research on HCWs' receipt of vaccination, little is known about how HCWs articulate pandemic influenza vaccination advice to patients. AIMS To explore HCWs' uptake of the A/H1...

"Professional competence or obsolescence--which?

A GOOD DOCroR NEVER GRADUATES! MAY I present Dr. Obsolescing Smith and Dr. Competent Smith ? Both are qualified and registered to practise the healing art on the basis of existing legal requirements. Fifteen years ago both completed the first phase of their medical education and received their respective medical degrees. Dr. 0. Smith graduated finally and irrevocably. With joyous abandon he sev...

Duties to rescue: individual, professional and institutional.

Clinicians and researchers can often rescue patients or research participants from serious harms. Indeed, they often have a duty to do so—a duty to rescue. Duties to rescue are frequently discussed in the medical ethics literature, but according to Tina Rulli and Joseph Millum they are under-theorised and more problematic than is normally acknowledged. Rulli and Millum outline two widely discus...

The holistic healthcare executive: balancing personal and professional lives.

Social Responsibility of Professional Athletes during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study

According to the concept of social responsibility, since professional athletes are members of society and, like other members of society, are responsible for their environment, it is necessary for them both to improve their sportive, economic and social performance and to promote the social living standards of the people of the society. Therefore, the main purpose of the present study was to in...