Background: Preconception care is an organized and comprehensive program of health care that identifies and reduces woman’s reproductive risks before conception through risk assessment, health promotion, and interventions. This study aimed to assess knowledge, practice, and attitude of married women about preconception care and find out the association between the level of knowledge and p...

The question of when a duty of care in the tort of negligence is owed by one person to another is a question about relationships and responsibility as recognised by the law. It is important that people should know what the law is and also that the law be flexible enough to change in the interests of justice. In negligence, the duty of care is usually the arena in which the battle between flexib...

BACKGROUND When a physician provides an insufficient explanation to a patient, such as regarding diagnosis, treatment, drug use, or prognosis, the physician is deemed to have delivered substandard care. It is likely that the standards applied to physicians' explanations have changed as a result of the increased importance of patients' rights of self-determination. However, little or no research...

Physicians in general, and residents in particular, are adapting to duty schedules in which they have fewer continuous work hours; however, there are no Canadian guidelines on duty hours restrictions. To better inform resident duty hour policy in Canada, we set out to prepare a set of recommendations that would draw upon evidence reported in the literature and reflect the experiences of residen...

An enduring problem in company law is the liability of directors to for damage caused by wrongful acts. On one hand, levers must be created whereby this exists, effective, and plays a preventive role: director discouraged from carrying out damaging activities. other business world involves taking risks. It sometimes regular companies suffer losses, not because mistake but factors external direc...