This study proposes to achieve a comparative analysis with regard to the obligation of result and the obligation of conduct in civil law, from a perspective of the professional duties and responsibilities arising out of a lawyer’s practice. The point of departure in this analysis consists in an overview including the main forms of social responsibility, continuing with juridical responsibility,...

With the recent restructuring of Army infantry divisions in the new brigade combat team model, division psychiatrists are facing new and unique demands. This article outlines the varying perspectives of the position and the duties and responsibilities of a division psychiatrist. It provides guidance on how to negotiate the myriad of challenges unique to the position. Discussion includes plannin...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (”BATF”), an agency of the United States Treasury Department, has wide-ranging law enforcement responsibilities, which include the investigation of crimes involving guns, explosives, and illicit drugs. Its execution of these duties has been the subject of considerable controversy. This Study reports evidence that the law enforcement activities of the ...

Nursing boundaries, first addressed by Florence Nightingale, are referred to in the “Nightingale Pledge” used in pinning ceremonies throughout our country. Passages such as ”I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous...maintain and elevate the standard of my profession...will hold in confidence matters committed to my keeping...in the practice of my calling...and devote myself ...

Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because ethical claims have the power to motivate, delineate principles, duties and responsibilities, and hold global and national actors morally responsible for achie...

Forensic psychiatrists are not as vulnerable to liability as general psychiatrists. The absence of a traditional physician-patient relationship and judicial and quasijudicial immunity are all protective against malpractice actions. Although the absence of a doctor-patient relationship removes an essential element of malpractice, other types of liability such as defamation and ordinary negligenc...