PubMed Health⌕ Search
Home/Archive/PubMed

PubMed · 10256949

When physicians meet the press.

D S O'Leary
View original source ↗Export metadata ↓

Abstract

Disasters involving multiple casualties or the injury or illness of a prominent person can push the hospital into the public relations spotlight. How the physician who is cast into the role of spokesman responds to the press can have significant ramifications for the hospital, the patient, and the public as well.

Explore related subjects

CommunicationHumansMass MediaMedical Staff, HospitalPublic RelationsRole PlayingJournal Article

Keep this discovery

Explore connections, maps & timelines

BibTeXRIS

D S O'Leary. 1982. When physicians meet the press.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10256949/

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related citations

PubMed2001

Vaccine safety: risk communication--a global perspective.

The complexity of risks connected with both vaccine-preventable diseases as well as with immunization will be discussed and used as the basis for conclusions: -what should be done to avoid damage to current and future immunization programs and -how to improve risk communication. The need for more complete data on true, perceived and unknown immunization risks necessitates strengthening our research capabilities as well as surveillance and vaccine safety programs, and to critically examine the factors influencing public sentiments, taking into account that public perceptions of risk vary depending on the characteristics of risk. A concerted effort is needed to improve benefit and risk communication at all levels. The medical community should play a key role for improved communication.

Communication↗