Caring for risky patients: duty or virtue?

Effects of combat deployment on risky and self-destructive behavior among active duty military personnel.

Although research has documented negative effects of combat deployment on mental health, few studies have examined whether deployment increases risky or self-destructive behavior. The present study addressed this issue. In addition, we examined whether deployment effects on risky behavior varied depending on history of pre-deployment risky behavior, and assessed whether psychiatric conditions m...

Caring Behaviors Related to COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Eastern of Iran

Background: Some recommendations and health protocols were presented for controlling COVID-19 after the outbreak such as the use of face masks, observing social distance, closure of schools, and etc. Despite these protocols, we witnessed different peaks and variants of COVID-19 during more than two years.This study investigated some risky behaviors such as not wearing face masks, violating soci...

The art of marketing a successful private duty agency: always be mindful of your core.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature Book III Of Morals

I have already hinted, that our sense of every kind of virtue is not natural; but that there are some virtues, that produce pleasure and approbation by means of an artifice or contrivance, which arises from the circumstances and necessity of mankind. Of this kind I assert justice to be; and shall endeavour to defend this opinion by a short, and, I hope, convincing argument, before I examine the...

Health care prioritization: a clinician’s duty

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Publicly funded health care systems are increasingly confronted with fiscal and demographic challenges and face pressure to constrain resource use without impacting clinical outcomes. FINDINGS Clinicians routinely make decisions in the care of their patients that use finite health care resources. Aligning the goal of caring for their patients with ensuring that effective int...