Lloyd Duplechan joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr David Sine: “Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety.”
Debbie Berkowitz joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Anna D. Goff, Dr Kathleen Marie Fagan, and Dr Monica L. Gerrek: "Do Clinics in Meat and Poultry Plants Endanger Workers?”
In a study of New York physicians' compliance with reporting of communicable diseases, surveyed physicians responded better to legal warnings than to requests that explained public health benefits.
The harms of communicating autism risk can be avoided by helping families to understand risk and to distinguish between poor and good sources of scientific information, which should take families’ interests into account.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(4):323-327. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.4.nlit1-1504.