BACKGROUND Practicing safe behavior regarding patients is an intrinsic part of a physician's ethical and professional standards. Despite this, physicians practice behaviors that run counter to patient safety, including practicing defensive medicine, failing to report incidents, and hesitating to disclose incidents to patients. Physicians' risk of malpractice litigation seems to be a relevant fa...

OBJECTIVE Psychiatry is a low-risk specialisation; however, there is a steady increase in malpractice claims against psychiatrists. Defensive psychiatry (DP) refers to any action undertaken by a psychiatrist to avoid malpractice liability that is not for the sole benefit of the patient's mental health and well-being. The objectives of this study were to assess the scope of DP practised by psych...

Chemical weapons accounted for only 1 per cent of the 750,000 British troops killed in the First World War and yet caused disproportionate casualties (estimated at 180,100). The considerable investment in the development of new toxins and methods of delivery was designed to maintain the elements of surprise and uncertainty as these accentuated their psychological effect. Soldiers were continual...

Physicians have always strived to uphold all the ethical postulates of the medical profession in all aspects of the practice, however with the vast advances in science and technology, numerous ethical dilemmas regarding all aspects of life and ultimately death have emerged. Medical decisions however, are no longer in the sole jurisdiction of traditional Hippocratic medicine but are now delibera...

2758 Dear Editor, Each code of medical ethics should undergo periodical revisions and updates inspired by the need to align the ethical evaluation to the latest medical issues determined by scientific progress and the passage of time1. However, compared to the advances of biomedical knowledge and practices the considerable time frame spent on code renewal (e.g. an average of 8 years, in Italy) ...

This paper at first makes a comparative study of the two different paradigms of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine. The author holds that there are four essential differences between the two paradigms: the theory of Yin and Yang as well as five phases vs. modern natural science, experienced "black box" vs. objective anatomy, overall synthesis vs. concrete analysis, and "tho...

Objective: In this descriptive study, which questions the problems and perspectives faced by physicians about medical bad practices (malpractice), are often heard today, information defensive of family physicians, it is aimed to determine their attitude behavior. Methods: November-December 2020, study was conducted on 77 who worked as a physician in Isparta/Turkey accepted participation using s...

This study aims at verifying relationships between the perception of medico-legal risks involved in professional activity Republic Kazakhstan healthcare professionals (HCPs), defensive medical behavior and their understanding liability (HCPL) insurance. The current paper also analyzes experience some foreign countries based on a which suggests ways improving liability, medicine introduction to ...

A defensive alliance in a graph is a set $S$ of vertices with the property that every vertex in $S$ has at most one moreneighbor outside of $S$ than it has inside of $S$. A defensive alliance $S$ is called global if it forms a dominating set. The global defensive alliance number of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a global defensive alliance in $G$. In this article we study the global ...