The provision of care for survivors of sexual violence is a medico-legal emergency. However, due to social issues, healthcare providers face several ethical and legal dilemmas when administering care to such survivors at hospitals. Added to these are the compulsions under mandatory reporting laws, which oblige healthcare providers to abide by the ethical commitments of care and treatment, and m...

BACKGROUND To prevent work-related ill-health, selection of workers for mandatory occupational health surveillance should be based on the actual risk of work-related disease. AIMS (i) To determine the proportion of sick-listed workers with self-reported work-related health problems not under mandatory occupational health surveillance. (ii) To determine whether self-reported work-related sickn...

Body packing, pushing and stuffing are methods by which individuals conceal illicit drugs for the purposes of transporting them across borders or evading police discovery. Body packers swallow drugs in rubber or latex packets for trafficking; body pushers insert drug packets into their rectum or vagina, and body stuffers swallow wrapped or unwrapped drugs to dispose of the evidence when fearing...

CONTEXT Laws requiring mandatory reporting of domestic violence to police exist in 4 states. Controversy exists about the risks and benefits of such laws. OBJECTIVE To examine attitudes of female emergency department patients toward mandatory reporting of domestic violence injuries to police and how these attitudes may differ by abuse status. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectiona...

Gricean implicatures are often viewed as a very weak kind of implication, viz., as optional enrichments of the literal meaning of an utterance. In virtue of being optional, they need not be present on every occasion of utterance, and they can be explicitly denied. Further, if implicatures are viewed as optional enrichments, a false implicature cannot be the reason why an utterance is infelicito...

Play is commonly considered to be a voluntary activity. Game designers generally believe that gameplay is essentially different when play is obligatory. Such a belief may be a challenge for serious games, as instruction is usually mandatory. This article describes the outcomes of two experiments on the impact of voluntariness on the learning effect of a serious game. In the first experiment fre...

BACKGROUND Eyes are frequently injured in occupational accidents. What is the preventive effect of mandatory eye protection in metalworking? METHODS The injury incidence was determined before and after eye protection became mandatory in a metalworking yard. RESULTS The incidence declined from 6.09 to 0.42 injuries per million working hours after eye protection became mandatory. CONCLUSION...

This article presents findings from a survey examining knowledge of elder abuse among Georgia's coroners. More than half of the 116 respondents indicated that they know "almost nothing" or "a little" about distinguishing signs of physical abuse from signs of aging (54%) and mandatory reporting laws and related elder abuse statutes (63%). When asked the frequency with which older adult cases wer...

Physicians’ knowledge of therapy and counseling stands among the most important issues in the viewpoints of clients who refer to psychiatric centers. Transsexual patients are very important in this regard. The goal of this research is to study their attitude toward doctors’ empathy. A group of transsexual patients who referred to the Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran, answered the Jefferson ...