Conveying an effective message in voice mail or e-mail.
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Communication↗
Biomedical subjects
Leah Curtin
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Health care, ethics, and information technologies.
This essay explores how ethics, computing, and health care intersect in medical informatics. It discusses the power technology places in the hands of health care professionals and the ethical problems they may encounter as a result of that power.
Decision Making↗
Autonomy, accountability and nursing practice.
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Conscience↗
It takes a whole nation ... to create a health care system.
The biggest failure we face today is that we argue about the effects of poverty and the benefits of welfare rather than about how to sustain a reasonably cohesive and integrated community that optimizes human development for everybody. Yet that is exactly what must happen if we are to integrate our recreational, educational, health care, and health promotion systems and employment policies to create a healthier population. Care of the sick and the elderly is not a primary wealth- (or health-) producing social function; it is a derivative activity. If a society overinvests in it, it may underinvest in the real economy ... which then will not create the jobs, stability, and wealth that support the health of the population. This is not the kind of problem that the health care system alone, or any one sector of society, can actually tackle on its own. The challenge is to create real partnerships with all sectors: employers, labor leaders, educators, police, and governmental groups.
Attitude to Health↗