After an epidemic increase in the use of marijuana from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s, there appears to be a recent decrease in the prevalence of use. Patterns of use of marijuana vary considerably depending upon the socio-cultural and psychobiologic characteristics of the user. There may also be ...

Exposure to noise, the availability and the use of ear protectors, and the adequacy of the medical surveillance of noise-exposed workers were surveyed in the small industry of Finland in order to provide information for the development of occupational health care. One hundred workplaces were chosen by random sampling to ...

The sera from 1215 meat inspectors and 1248 meat workers were examined for the presence of agglutinating titres of 1:24 or greater to the serovars of Leptospira interrogans known to be endemic in New Zealand. Although 10 percent of meat inspectors and 6.2 percent of meat workers were seropositive, only ...

The effect of marijuana on affective changes and interpersonal skills, including empathy, acceptance, warmth, and genuineness, was studied in 20 dyadic relationships in which the experimental subject smoking marijuana containing 6 mg of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and a placebo in separate trials. Marijuana caused a relative decrease in the ratings of the ...

Employers often ignore the different levels of skill among social workers and regard the non-MSW as merely a less expensive, second choice after the MSW for the same job. The author discusses a more productive allocation of work among MSWs and BSWs and describes its application in a medical setting.

This article is a plea for education toward a greater understanding of each other's disciplines for both physicians and social workers. It describes the 1971 summer experience of two medical students, whose perceptions changed over the course of the summer, not only towards social workers, but towards their own treatment ...

This report on work-related stress among junior doctors was published by the Health Policy and Economic Research Unit of the British Medical Association (BMA) in 1998. This report outlines the nature of work-related stress among junior doctors and the implications for prevention and intervention.

Doctors new to Aboriginal Australia are not infrequently surprised that their choice to work with the needy and underprivileged is not cause for unconditional positive regard. The naïveté of this position reflects the assumption that the nature of medical work somehow separates doctors from other less caring Europeans who have ...

A steady increase in the number of cases of poisoning due to barbiturates, tranquillizers and non-barbiturate sedatives has been noted for Ontario by the Attorney-General's Laboratory, Toronto, during the period 1955-1964 on the basis of submitted material. Five cases of poisoning by barbiturates were recorded in 1955 and 193 in ...