He wielded his clinical obligation like Perseus's shield, in which a cavalcade of Medusas lost their stony power.
Similarly, there is room for debate over whether there is a distinction between treating illness and actively promoting health and wellbeing, and whether, if such a distinction holds, there is a difference between a moral imperative to promote health and wellbeing in the same way that there is a clinical obligation to treat illness.
Brennan added a private practice to his clinical obligations at SHU in 1997.
Yet these disclosures prove to be complex interventions that blur the line between research and clinical care, and create both clinical opportunities and clinical obligations.
We did not discriminate between articles published by PhD researchers without clinical obligations affiliated with anesthesia departments and those by their physician colleagues.
Additional potential factors for knowledge deficits include suboptimal resident attendance at didactic conferences due to competing clinical obligations and a dearth of readily available, concise CKD educational resources.
(Participant49) The provision of research test results that are perceived to have clinical relevance changes the dynamics of research, creating clinical options for participants and clinical obligations both for the researchers and for clinicians outside the research study.
At the same time, respondents suggest that test result disclosure differentiates such studies from "pure" research, because it requires adjunct clinical services and entails clinical obligations among researchers, clinicians, and participants.
Distance learning may play an important role in epidemiology courses, since it allows participants to study whenever and wherever they prefer, which provides the opportunity to combine courses with other (e.g. clinical) obligations.
The entailed clinical obligations fall both on researchers and clinicians actively involved in the research projects, and on clinicians caring for the participants but not involved in the research.
Individual general practitioners (GPs) and their health care teams must provide documentary evidence of SEA participation as part of professional, contractual and clinical governance obligations [ 28, 29].
