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Friday, October 04, 2002Unlike many WHO reports, this one is not simply being released. It is being "launched" in a day-long program in Brussels that will be followed by an effort over the next six months to persuade governments that violence is a preventable health problem. I always become acutely uncomfortable when social ills are defined as “public health problems.” It implies that medical professionals should be able to make people behave themselves. Certainly, injuries from violence and health problems caused by addiction are problems that medicine can address, but curbing violence is better left to the law than to the health field. Hmm.. I'm not sure what to make of this. Medpundit is mentioned briefly at the Utne Reader's Web Watch site. It's under the heading "Questionable Doctors." Yours truly is a "related link." Does that mean I'm a "questionable doctor," or do they like the site? posted by Sydney on 10/04/2002 08:32:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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