Serving the public

An analyst will handle many tens of thousands of samples over a career. The speed and complexity of sample analysis and reporting is rising and will rise further still. The quality and reproducibility demanded of sample analysis is also rising. Analyses may become numbingly repetitive and results may not receive much appreciation. In analytics, the rewards for work well done are rarely proportionate to the penalties for work done late or 

L-tryptophan is a naturally-produced, natural amino acid used as a dietary supplement. Samples from one manufacturer were found to be contaminated by trace amounts of another naturally occurring compound — l,l -ethylidene bis-[i.-tryptophan]. The latter compound appears to have been responsible for causing a number of deaths and additional cases of chronic eosinophilia-myalgia,111 some of which might have been prevented had there 

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The task of the DRA is to serve the public. Its operations must therefore be transparent to both clients (e.g. drug manufacturers) and consumers. Communication with clients should be a routine activity throughout the regulatory process. Information regarding its functions and the results of decisions should also be communicated regularly to the public. 

The NCRP seeks to promulgate information and recommendations based on leading scientific judgment on matters of radiation protection and measurement and to foster cooperation among organizations concerned with these matters. These efforts are intended to serve the public interest and the Council welcomes comments and suggestions on its reports or activities from those interested in its work. 

More aggressive reforms are needed if pharma and regulatory agencies are to serve the public optimally. In this chapter we considered how... 

Chemists have a professional responsibility to serve the public interest and welfare and to further knowledge of science. Chemists should actively be concerned with the health and welfare of coworkers, consumers, and the community. Public comments on scientific matters should be made with care and precision, without unsubstantiated exaggerated, or premature statements. 

Engineers shall at all times strive to serve the public interest. 

Fire protection may or may not be required according to local codes facilities that serve the public are increasingly being required to provide some type of fire... 

I know that many Physicians exercise their profession, not so much through self-interest as through the desire of serving the Public but all of them are not so. Some will rejoice at the good fortune of... 

Land, acquisition can be an important part of a managed retreat plan. Land in the public trust— through federal, state, and local ownership— serves the public well in conservation, recreation, and tourism, providing public access to the shore, preserving aesthetics, and protect-... 

These lOM reports can serve as stimuli for the pharmacy profession to initiate improvements in the quality of care delivered to patients and to reduce the extent and severity of medical errors within the U.S. This is an opportunity for pharmacisfs to institute improvements from within the profession, instead of waifing for imposed changes from other health professions, industries, or regulatory bodies. Pharmacists are trained with a xmique set of skills and expertise regarding medication use. Working as part of a team of health care professionals, these skills can be used to better serve the public, lead to improvements in the quality of care, and enhance the professional aspects of pharmacy practice. 

We accept the inevitability of imperfection, thus we must accept the inevitable need for quality standards. Thus must we also accept the imperfection of those same quality standards. Compendial standards must be what can be done failure to publish a standard because it is imperfect can be failure to serve the public. I submit that a willingness to move forward in the face of imperfections is consistent with the second maxim stated by Descartes, which applies to any uncertain situation, to move resolutely and unswervingly in the most promising direction. 

Ministry of Public Health. The Ministry of Public Health has responsibility for the orgcinization, management and administration of public healthcare services and most of the medical services of the government, especicilly in rural areas. The Ministry of Public Health has supplied many appropriate health facilities both in central and provincial areas serving the public in accordance with their needs in... 

With a steadily growing membership of 2000 representing 29 countries, ISPOR remains steadfast in its mission to translate pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research into practice to ensure that society allocates scarce healthcare resources wisely, fairly, and efficiently. The Society serves the public interest by ... 

It is difficult to prevent some personal biases from entering professional attitudes. However, professionals serving the public interest must render an unbiased presentation of the facts if the role of public opinion in the decision-making process is to be valid. Professionals must adopt an unbiased attitude, even in those circumstances where they have personal beliefs which may differ from the facts. 

However, critics have voiced concern over what they see as an underlying adulteration of the pure academic atmosphere by the invasion of industry-capitalized research efforts. In this view the academic pursuit of basic research is diverted by questions of application from its true purpose. Furthermore, academics see industry s need to maintain confidentiality and to protect patent rights in order to make investments pay off as conflicting with their own mandate to publish in order to serve the public good. 

OECD (2orr) Regulatory Policy and Governance. Supporting Economic Growth and Serving the Public Interest. OECD Publishing Paris. 

Being honest, impartial, and serving the public, employers and clients with fidehty ... 

A rationale for the establishment of a National Academy of Engineering distinct from the NAS was the belief that, on the one hand, pure science couldn t capitalize on new knowledge, and, on the other, that the free market lacked means to serve the public good. At the same time, in the upper echelons of federal science policy and the social circles of chemical and construction industry managers, there was extensive hand-wringing about the scale of military and aerospace funding. 

Serve the public, employees, employers, clients, the Society, and the profession with fidelity, honesty, and impartiality. 

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