Why doctors should get a life

Why doctors should care about animal cruelty.

BACKGROUND Animal cruelty is a significant problem for society, and there are good reasons why doctors should be particularly concerned by it. Increasing evidence for links between animal cruelty and child or spousal abuse is an area of growing concern internationally and of real importance to health professionals. OBJECTIVE This article aims to raise awareness of the relevance of animal crue...

Why doctors should convey the medical consensus on vaccine safety.

Public confidence in vaccination is crucial to the success of immunisation programmes worldwide. Yet, growing vaccine hesitancy and refusal poses serious risks to public health. For example, a recent study found that although outright refusal is still relatively uncommon, in a typical month, over 90% of surveyed US physicians receive requests to delay childhood vaccines. What is troubling is th...

Exemplary medicine: why doctors should practise what they preach.

Conscience should guide doctors at end of life.

All doctors have the right to follow their conscience when deciding whether to assist dying patients physically or to provide them with the means to end their lives — within the bounds of legislation, delegates to the Canadian Medical Association’s (CMA’s) annual meeting have voted. As Canada considers changing its laws concerning assisted death, Canada’s doctors considered their stance on the ...

Conviction by mathematical error? Doctors and lawyers should get probability theory right.

Editorials Conviction by mathematical error? Doctors and lawyers should get probability theory right In a recent case of DNA evidence the probability of a chance match was quoted as 20 million to one. The accurate statement that the defendant or two other unknown people in the United Kingdom could have committed the offence is much less impressive. Other evidence was overwhelming, but this may ...