An impaired physician is one unable to fulfill professional or personal responsibilities because of psychiatric illness, alcoholism, or drug dependency. Current estimates are that approximately 15% of physicians will be impaired at some point in their careers. Although physicians may not have higher rates of impairment compared with other professionals, factors in their background, personality,...

This paper explores people’s behavior when they are facing financial risks. Through the setting of an economics experiment, people’s willingness to bear financial risks and their tendency to impose risks on others are investigated. The experiment result shows that most people are risk-neutral or risk-averse when making decision under financial environment, and their tendency to impose risks on ...

This paper acknowledges the effort of government agencies, health organizations and concern groups in Nigeria to bring lasting solution to HIV/AIDS pandemic in the Nation. Among others, there has been a lot of investment in massive education campaign on HIV/AIDS, prevention of mother to child transmission, increasing availability of drugs and accessibility to treatment, computerized patient dat...

Denying reality is obviously a maladaptive way of dealing with a situation. In fact, denial is generally considered to be one of the defense mechanisms, mechanisms that are inappropriate, maladaptive, and pathological. In the field of medicine to deny the existence of a disease seriously compromises the physician�s ability to help patients. If a physician does not believe that a particular dise...

MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT: Defendant, THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, respectfully represents that the Petition for Preliminary Injunction should be denied because the law in dispute, an amendment to the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans, is a permitted and constitutional exercise of the Police powers of the City and, the state statute which purports to prohibit such an action does not apply ...