The rare case of the patient unwilling to disclose genetic data to his or her family provides an opportunity to expand the atomistic conception of the autonomous individual in medical decision-making. Medical practitioners naturally avoid violating patient autonomy and privacy. However, unwilling disclosure can damage the health of people other than the patient. In this situation, professionals...

The purpose of this study is two-fold: firstly to examine the position of the Chairperson and the Executive Director regarding the awareness of board members of nonprofit organizations of their fiduciary duties, and secondly, to explore the impact of formalized organizational procedures and role definition on promoting awareness of fiduciary duties among board members. Data was collected from 1...

The study investigated the perceived roles of Religious and Cultural Teachers in Implementing Curriculum towards Achieving Sustaining Peace Imo State. was guided by two research questions one hypothesis. Descriptive survey design adopted for study. Multistage proportionate stratified random sampling techniques were used to draw a sample 224 Christian religious teachers from population 602 junio...

Introduction. Systematic evaluation is an integral part of the organization and delivery of community oral health care programmes, ensuring the effectiveness of these community-based interventions. This study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice of primary health care (PHC) personnel regarding their duties toward oral health. Methods and Material. A cross-sectional study was carried out a...

This article is written with a view to point out a direction in which farther investigation might be made, in order to attempt the solution of the question of the continued prevalence of Enteric fever in cantonments. The work begun has, through the devolving of certain duties on the writer, been left unfinished ; he is anxious, however, that those whose opportunities admit of it, do push the en...

OBJECTIVE To assess the responses of UK doctors to the General Medical Council's (GMC) Good Medical Practice and the Duties of a Doctor, and to the GMC's performance procedures for which they provide the professional underpinning. DESIGN Questionnaire study of a representative sample of UK doctors. SUBJECTS 794 UK doctors, stratified by year of qualification, sex, place of qualification (UK...

One of the most controversial areas of modern tort law is that of the duty of landowners toward people who visit their land. The common law divided land visitors into three types: invitees, licensees, and trespassers. The highest duty of care was owed to the invitee and the lowest to the trespasser. The distinctions led courts to hand down harsh decisions and to draw formal lines between the ca...