The virtual mentor : VMPub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.ecas1-1409
Matthew Wynia
{"title":"Advocate as a doctor or advocate as a citizen?","authors":"Matthew Wynia","doi":"10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.ecas1-1409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.ecas1-1409","url":null,"abstract":"If one presents oneself as a physician in the context of activism, one's remarks can be taken not just as the views of a thoughtful citizen but as those of someone who has expertise relevant to the situation.","PeriodicalId":75209,"journal":{"name":"The virtual mentor : VM","volume":"16 9","pages":"694-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32664213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The virtual mentor : VMPub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.mhst1-1409
John Dittmer
{"title":"The Medical Committee for Human Rights.","authors":"John Dittmer","doi":"10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.mhst1-1409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.mhst1-1409","url":null,"abstract":"The Medical Committee for Human Rights left its mark on American history and provided a model for organizations that succeeded it, like Physicians for Human Rights and Physicians for a National Health Program.","PeriodicalId":75209,"journal":{"name":"The virtual mentor : VM","volume":"16 9","pages":"745-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32663210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The virtual mentor : VMPub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.spec1-1409
Jonathan M Metzl, Dorothy E Roberts
{"title":"Structural competency meets structural racism: race, politics, and the structure of medical knowledge.","authors":"Jonathan M Metzl, Dorothy E Roberts","doi":"10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.spec1-1409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.spec1-1409","url":null,"abstract":"The call for structural competency encourages medicine to broaden its approach to matters of race and culture so that it might better address both individual-level doctor and patient characteristics and institutional factors.","PeriodicalId":75209,"journal":{"name":"The virtual mentor : VM","volume":"16 9","pages":"674-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32664211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The virtual mentor : VMPub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.hlaw1-1409
Joseph Gregorio
{"title":"Physicians, medical marijuana, and the law.","authors":"Joseph Gregorio","doi":"10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.hlaw1-1409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.hlaw1-1409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75209,"journal":{"name":"The virtual mentor : VM","volume":"16 9","pages":"732-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32663208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The virtual mentor : VMPub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.pfor1-1409
Ira Helfand, Antti Junkkari, Ogebe Onazi
{"title":"Preventing nuclear war: a professional responsibility for physicians.","authors":"Ira Helfand, Antti Junkkari, Ogebe Onazi","doi":"10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.pfor1-1409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.pfor1-1409","url":null,"abstract":"For more than 50 years, medicine has known of its responsibility to educate the public and decision makers about the medical consequences of nuclear war, but the profession has become complacent about the danger.","PeriodicalId":75209,"journal":{"name":"The virtual mentor : VM","volume":"16 9","pages":"739-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32663209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The virtual mentor : VMPub Date : 2014-09-01DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.ecas2-1409
Martin Donohoe, Gordon Schiff
{"title":"A call to service: social justice is a public health issue.","authors":"Martin Donohoe, Gordon Schiff","doi":"10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.ecas2-1409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.09.ecas2-1409","url":null,"abstract":"Physicians have a responsibility to grapple with the conditions their patients face, which should lead them to consider ways to help patients in the broadest and most effective ways, and that would entail ameliorating problems that affect health through a public health approach to practicing medicine.","PeriodicalId":75209,"journal":{"name":"The virtual mentor : VM","volume":"16 9","pages":"699-707"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32664214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}