Dr. Albert Robbins of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who specializes in treating such cases, contends that the condition is a "silent epidemic". He bases that conclusion on the growing number of patients that he and other environmental physicians are treating.
As irritant dermatitis affects multiple specialties, the audience for this book is wide, including clinical and investigative dermatologists, allergists, toxicologists, pharmaceutical scientists, occupational and environmental physicians, public health physicians, cosmetologists and skin bioengineers.
Severity of asthma, medication usage, environmental exposures, physician and emergency department visits were compared among respondents.
In December 2006, as part of his workers compensation claim, the patient was referred to an occupational and environmental medicine physician by the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents for an impartial examination.
On 12 May 2008, Paul Kotin, MD, pioneer environmental health physician-scientist and NIEHS director from 1966 to 1971, passed away in Laguna Beach, California.
Because of this relationship among physicians, the governmental regulators, and the hospitals we consider the number of physicians (in full time equivalents FTE'S) per admission as an environmental factor (physicians' intensity).
Although its roots are in traditional allopathic clinical practice, many environmental medicine physicians are primarily involved in public health practice and use quantitative and management skills that focus on populations rather than the clinical paradigm that focuses on individuals.
We have described the expanding scope of environmental medicine and physician practice in it.
Due to the low perceived need for a regular personal primary care physician, environmental factors such as time, locational convenience, and work-provided medical insurance became decisive in doctor shopping behavior.
She is a consultant for human rights and environmental organizations, including Physicians for Human Rights and Earth Child Institute.
