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V W Sidel

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PubMed1998

Medicine and nuclear war: from Hiroshima to mutual assured destruction to abolition 2000.

To determine how physicians might participate in the prevention of nuclear war in the post-Cold War era, we review, from a medical perspective, the history of the nuclear weapons era since Hiroshima and the status of today's nuclear arsenals and dangers. In the 1950s, physicians were active partners in governmental civil defense planning. Since 1962, physicians have stressed prevention of nuclear war as the only effective medical intervention. Public advocacy by physicians helped end both atmospheric nuclear testing in the 1960s and superpower plans for fighting a nuclear war in the 1980s. Today's dangers include nuclear arms proliferation, an increasing risk of nuclear terrorism, and the 35000 warheads that remain in superpower-nuclear arsenals, many still on hair-trigger alert. Physicians have recently joined with military and political leaders and over 1000 citizens' organizations in calling for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. Global medical collaboration in support of a verifiable and enforceable Nuclear Weapons Convention would be a major contribution to safeguarding health in the 21st century.

Civil Defense↗
PubMed1998

I think they're doing research on my patients, but I can't get anyone to listen.

JONA's Management Case Studies presents provocative issues in nursing management, including personnel management, ethics, labor relations, economics, staffing, interdisciplinary relations, and career management. Experts in the field share their perspectives on the issue. Readers are encouraged to submit cases of 250 to 300 words. The case may be based on factual information but should be altered to make individuals and institutions unidentifiable. Authors of cases will not be identified although they will be offered the opportunity to be one of the expert case commentators.

Aged↗
PubMed1998

The social responsibilities of the physician.

The 1997 Keynote Address for the White Coat Ceremony at St George's University School of Medicine indicates the importance of social medicine in the work of the physician and urges the students beginning the study of medicine to devote themselves to equitable provision of medical care, to prevention of disease and promotion of health, and to promotion of social well-being.

Ethics, Medical↗
PubMed1992

Medicine and war.

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Ethics, Medical↗
PubMed1991

Decreasing the field strength of the National Health Service Corps: will access to care suffer?

To study the effect that the decline in physicians in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) pipeline will have on access to care for patients at sites to which NHSC physicians are assigned, a survey was sent to all NHSC physicians completing their obligated service in 1989. Seventy-four (74) percent of the respondents believed that the decreased number of NHSC doctors in the pipeline would threaten the existence of their site and 52 percent reported that no doctors or clinic sites would be able to provide free or subsidized care if their NHSC site were forced to close. Of the physicians who stated that their NHSC patients would be able to find an alternative source of care, the most commonly cited (33 percent) alternative was the local hospital emergency room. We conclude that access to care for patients at NHSC sites will be seriously impaired by the decline in physicians in the NHSC pipeline.

Female↗