Disciplining doctors.

Disciplining doctors for misconduct: character matters, but so does competence.

Consider the cases of two physicians. One of them had consensual sexual relations with an adult patient. The other demonstrated repeated lapses in clinical judgment, technical skills and knowledge, leading to poor outcomes, even deaths, in multiple patients. If you were seated on a medical board or tribunal, charged with protecting the public from bad physicians, how would you judge these two c...

Governing by drugs: Conniving patients, beguiled doctors and disciplining drugs

Disciplining multimedia - Multimedia, IEEE

conjures up many emotions and responses—it often refers to anything that uses visual and acoustic data. As a result, some may brush multimedia off as just a marketing slogan. However, many universities have recently introduced degree courses in multimedia. This article attempts to define the scope and basis for a multimedia discipline. R ecently, a flurry of educational institutions has rushed ...

Child disciplining practices in Kerala.

This study was done to examine the type and severity of disciplinary practices adopted by parents in Kerala. 1668 mothers, aged 18-49, participated in face-to-face interviews as part of a cross-sectional, population-based survey covering rural, urban and coastal areas. One child from each family was randomly selected as the index child. The interview focused primarily on disciplinary practices....

Disciplining and Screening Top Executives

Boards of directors face the twin task of disciplining and screening executives. To perform these tasks directors do not have detailed information about executives’ behaviour, and only infrequently have information about the success or failure of initiated strategies, reorganizations, mergers etc. We analyse the nature of (implicit) retention contracts boards use to discipline and screen execut...