| Popis: |
THERE is need for some clarification of the role of occupational medicine as a field of preventive medicine in relation to the health of the public as well as to that of the working population. The following paragraphs may apply to some extent to the practice of occupational medicine in industrial nations generally, but since the patterns of medical practice in the United States differ in certain respects from those elsewhere, it seems wise to adhere fairly closely to the local scene in this discussion. Furthermore, I have deliberately differentiated occupational medicine from general medical practice in an occupational setting in order to emphasize the physician's task in the management of occupational hazards. For I am concerned here, among other matters, with professional relationships which, once established, are more satisfactorily modified gra.dually from within than disrupted from without. |
