Physicians for Social

Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. In harm s way, 1998. 

Schletter T, Stein J, Reich F, et al. Harm s way Toxic threats to child devel opment, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, MA, 2000. 

National Environmental Trust, Washington, DC, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, DC, Learning Disabilities Association of America, Pittsburg, PA. Polluting our future Chemical pollution in the U.S. that affects child development and learning, March 2004, www.safekidsinfo.org... 

Ryn, V., "The Implications of Social Cognition and Theory for the Provider Contribution to Race/Ethnicity Disparities in Health Care," Commissioned Paper Prepared for Physicians for Human Rights Committee on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diagnosis and Treatment in the United States Health System, Washington, DC (2001). 

Health care services included outpatient visits to physician, psychologist, social worker, sleep specialist, and mental health organization, as well as inpatient care and nursing-home care (when the primary reason for placement was the elders sleep disturbance). The total health care services for 1995 were estimated... 

Similarly, if too much time elapses between the treatment and the injury, courts are reluctant to impose liability on a physician for harm to third persons. In Lester v Hall, a patient receiving lithium treatments had a car accident 5 days after his last treatment (43). The plaintiff alleged that the treatment was negligent and left the patient in an impaired condition that caused the accident. The court found the accident was unforeseeable given the 5 days between treatment and the accident. Additionally, the court refused to hold the physician liable for the accident because he had no direct supervision over the patient s actions. In weighing public policy and social utility considerations, the court found the burden imposed on a physician would be outweighed by the incremental benefits of warning. 

These similarities are offset by contrasts in their health insurance arrangements, access of patients to the political process, the authority wielded by physicians, and social insurance systems. For example, health care in the United States is generally seen as a private good associated with individual choice and the availability of menus for insurance, thereby rationing care by price. In Germany, by contrast, health care is seen primarily as a right or entitlement. It serves as an instrument of broader social justice, and rationing, if at all, is controlled by providers on a local and individual level. 

The publication of clinical trials, then, is one example where the pharmaceutical physician (acting as publicist or medical writer) may become an agent for social change (Gray 1994). Even when he/she acts solely as a medical writer, the pharmaceutical physician must understand the ethical responsibility to represent the material in a fair, balanced, and, above all, accurate manner. While an ombudsman-like role may help in finding compromise among the various pressures that are applied to this process from diverse outside parties, the pharmaceutical physician will inevitably (and... 

Acne scars are debilitating and socially disabling for the individual. Treatment of acne scars presents a challenge for a treating physician. Usually they cannot be effectively corrected by a single treatment modality because of their widely varied depth, width and structure. 

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