BACKGROUND New legislation now requires doctors to report unfit colleagues to the Medical Council of New Zealand. However, little research has examined the attitudes and willingness of doctors to report errant colleagues. AIM To examine the attitudes of a range of hospital-based medical practitioners towards the mandatory reporting of colleagues. METHODS House staff, registrars, and consult...

Information about substance use disorders (SUDs) is commonly taught in pre-licensure nursing programs. Nurses, regardless of their work settings, undoubtedly will encounter clients who deal with SUDs, and therefore it imperative that nurse educators prepare students for the care these clients. But what if person experiencing SUDs not a client, but colleague? This manuscript describes an innovat...

In the course of clinical and forensic work, psychologists sometimes discover serious weaknesses in knowledge, performance, or ethics in other psychologists' work. The ethical code of the American Psychological Association mandates confronting such a psychologist prior to making a professional complaint. This mandatory confrontation typically is omitted because of a sense of awkwardness or a fe...

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Nearly everyone has experienced an event that exerted a profound influence on some aspect of their life; often the full impact of that milestone is not fully appreciated until much later through the filter of retrospection. The first such event that established the course of my own scientific career occurred in November of 1946, when, searching for some group of animals to investigate, I attemp...

Abstract The author, who was a student and colleague of Harold S. Shapiro, gives some personal memories from Shapiro’s time as professor at KTH, Stockholm, 1972-2021.

We dedicate this special issue to our colleague, Dr. Lucinda Bryant (1941-2016).[...].