Mandatory reporting: ‘A policy without reason’.

Mandated reporting: a policy without reason.

About 40 years ago, Denver pediatrician C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues (1962) “discovered” the battered child syndrome. Although I did not have the privilege of knowing Kempe, I have enough friends who did that I am certain that he was thoughtful, caring, and charismatic. Even without those first-hand accounts, however, this picture could easily have been discerned from Kempe’s influence. As...

Mandatory reporting of professional incompetence.

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Intelligence Without Reason

Computers and Thought are the two categories that together de ne Arti cial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Arti cial Intelligence over the last thirty years has had a strong in uence on aspects of computer architectures. In this paper we also make the converse claim; that the state of computer architecture has been a strong in uence on our models of thought. ...

Mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.

Mandatory reporting of gunshot wounds: rebuttal.

© 2004 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors We applaud the Executive of the Section on Emergency Medicine of the Ontario Medical Association for their call to action. We support many of the points made in their position statement but ultimately believe that a law for the mandatory reporting of gunshot wounds will do more harm than good. Ovens describes the support the position statemen...