Climate Change Litigation: Vulnerable Children and a Duty of CareThis article considers climate change jurisprudence in the context other eschatological narratives developing theme ecological catastrophe. It focusses particular on concepts fault, harm responsibility, referents case narratives, as expounding sense outrage at excesses modern capitalism, converse use child party innocent all agenc...

BACKGROUND Client satisfaction is a common outcome measure for quality of care and goal for quality improvement in healthcare. We assessed women's perceptions of the structure, process and outcome of intrapartum care in Mulago hospital, specifically, labor ward duty shift handovers. METHODS Data was collected through 40 in-depth interviews conducted on two occasions: during the time of hospit...

Autonomy, paternalism, and the doctor 's duty of care Everything has its season, and there is a time for everything under the heavens: A time to be born and a time to die. .. A time to be silent and a time to speak. Ecclesiastes 3:1–7 Medicine constantly holds the tensions of contrasts. Of life and of death. Of fighting and of folding. Of truth and of deceit. Herein lies the art of medicine. Ho...

IMPORTANCE In 2010, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) proposed increased regulation of work hours and supervision for residents. New Common Program requirements that took effect in July 2011 dramatically changed the customary 24-hour in-house call schedule. Surgical residents are more likely to be affected by these duty hour restrictions. OBJECTIVE To examine su...

Cet article se trouve aussi en français à la page 803. Dear Colleagues, By the time you read these lines, a new cohort of medical graduates will have begun their residencies in family medicine and other specialties. Your College is one of the organizations represented on a steering committee addressing resident duty hours, hosted by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, with f...