Governments have chosen to follow policies that harm the mental health of asylum seekers; it is simply medicine's obligation to advocate against harm to health and individual doctors' duty to advocate for the health of their patients.
Roads are likely to follow, and thereafter harm to the environment.
(Would these groups behave better if we did? Would others follow suit? Would harm be prevented?) In other cases, we are concerned with consequences of a decidedly more negative sort.
Their rationale for the trigger tool method is '…the ability to quantify [harm] accurately with relatively small samples [of medical records] and to follow changes [in harm rates] longitudinally over time… [ 12]'.
Following self-harm, around half of patients received a psychosocial assessment, and clinicians recorded a wide-range of demographic, clinical and hospital-management data, as well as information on problems experienced and alcohol consumption within six hours of harm.
Boyes was held at gunpoint and told he would not be harmed if he followed instructions.
25 The use of screening criteria to identify charts with possible harm followed by an in-depth review for actual harm has been used for decades, including the landmark Harvard Medical Practice Study.
We talk with co-workers and clients, including Trump supporters, about our common frustrations when we lose our safety nets, see friends deported, lose our clean air and water, and all the harm to follow.
Beyond the pain of hearing that one might have a serious disease (with visible pathology, no less), I knew that other harm could follow: terror, sleepless nights, doctors' visits, costly and even painful medical workups that, in the end, might turn up nothing.
We can also follow a "do no harm" foreign aid strategy.
