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Physician Obligation in Disaster Preparedness and Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2006

KARINE MORIN ,
DANIEL HIGGINSON  and
MICHAEL GOLDRICH
KARINE MORIN
Affiliation:
Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association Ethics Standards Group of the American Medical Association
DANIEL HIGGINSON
Affiliation:
Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs
MICHAEL GOLDRICH
Affiliation:
Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs
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The terrorist attacks of 2001 were a reminder that individual and collective safety cannot be taken for granted. Since then, physicians, alongside public health professionals and other healthcare professionals as well as nonhealthcare personnel, have been developing plans to enhance the protection of public health and the provision of medical care in response to various threats, including acts of terrorism or bioterrorism. Included in those plans are strategies to attend to large numbers of victims and help prevent greater harm to even larger populations.The Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association formulates ethical policies for the medical profession through its interpretations of the AMA's Principles of Medical Ethics. The Council at the time this report was adopted consisted of Michael S. Goldrich, M.D. (Chair); Priscilla Ray, M.D. (Vice-Chair); Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A.; Daniel Higginson (student member); Mark A. Levine, M.D.; John M. O'Bannon, III, M.D.; Robert M. Sade, M.D.; Monique A. Spillman, M.D., Ph.D. (resident member); and Dudley M. Stewart, Jr., M.D. Staff to the Council at the time the report was adopted were Audiey Kao, M.D., Ph.D. (Vice President, Ethics Standards Group); Karine Morin, L.L.M. (Secretary); and Sara Taub, M.Be.

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SPECIAL SECTION: BIOETHICS AND WAR
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 417 - 421
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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