In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, John Glasser and colleagues report the results of a spatially-stratifi ed model to better understand the dynamics of disease outbreaks and the link with vaccine hesitancy and refusal. Using data for 39 132 children starting elementary school in San Diego County, CA, USA, in 2008 (2% of whom had a personal-belief exception to vaccines), the authors show the eff...

BACKGROUND Regarding controversial medical services, many have argued that if physicians cannot in good conscience provide a legal medical intervention for which a patient is a candidate, they should refer the requesting patient to an accommodating provider. This study examines what US physicians think a doctor is obligated to do when the doctor thinks it would be immoral to provide a referral....

Richa Nagar is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies holds the title College at University Minnesota. Her multilingual multi-genre work blends scholarship, creative writing, theatre, activism to build alliances with people’s struggles engage questions ethics, responsibility, justice. We contacted in December 2021 a request contribute our special issue. kindly agreed written conversa...

This study reports challenges in recruiting patients for a randomized controlled trial of homecare telemedicine. Descriptive statistics on patient eligibility for home-care telemedicine services and patient refusals for participation are provided. Frequency counts of reasons for study exclusion and participant refusal and Chi-square tests to compare race and age-related differences are given. O...

OBJECTIVE This study was done to describe an urban, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) system's experiences with pediatric patients and the rate and characteristics of non-transports in this setting. METHODS A retrospective analysis of all pediatric patients responded to by the Detroit Fire Department Division of EMS between January 1, 2002 and August 30, 2002 was done. RESULTS There were 5,97...