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As the Chairperson of the Hospital Ethics Committee of Westchester Medical Center and Clinical Ethics Consultative Service, Dr Petro, is deeply committed to sharing medical information with the general public. On this page she will raise and update medical issues, recommend other helpful web sites and generally discuss matters that relate to health and medical responsibility. General Health and Well Being http://www.apha.org/index.html As the largest public health organization in the world, the American Public Health Association does all kinds of work on health and well-being, mainly from a disease prevention view. They are also active in social justice issues doing research into drug addiction, poverty and infant mortality. As a standing member in their injury prevention section, Dr Petro highly recommends this organization's valuable site. NEWS ! For a consumer-oriented medical news service, delivering 15 to 20 articles daily, look at Global Physician Network. Reuters Daily Healthcare News. http://www.gpnet.com/HealthcareNews.html Clinically relevant stories for a consumer audience. Domestic Violence Dr Petro is a standing member of the County Coalition on Westchester Domestic Violence and Chair of the Medical and Social Services Subcommittee of the Westchester County Commission on Domestic Violence. She recently participated in the Commission on Domestic Violence Fatalities in New York City. The Governor announced the findings of the Commission on Oct 7,1997.The findings report will be used to create legislation designed to reduce domestic violence fatalities in New York State. NEW! Dr Petro has added a whole new list of resources for Domestic Violence related issues. Please E-mail her with suggestions, questions and coments about this section. Domestic Violence Sites and Resources http://www.fvpf.org This is the Family Violence Prevention Fund. It is a major organization promoting the health profession's involvement in recognizing and acting to prevent domestic violence. they provide health care workers with kits, posters, bumper stickers and excellent medical information about DV. http://www.microserve.net/~ping/links.html This web site list links, mostly legal, regarding domestic violence. It is a good resource site. Some of the links are dead ends. http://www.microserve.net/~ping/art.html This site offers clip art that can be downloaded and used for brochures, mailing, etc http://www.feminist.org/911/crisis.html These are domestic violence hot lines. http://www.ofoinc.org/dvlinks.htm These are New YOrk State hotline linkes. http://www.ama-assn.org/public/releases/assault/orderfrm.htm this is the AMA diagnosis and treatment guidelines link. Tells medical professionals what to look for in family violence. http://www.acep.org/PUBLIC/fc009803.htm This is a page from the College of Emergency Physicians and gives a doctors guide to identifying and caring for victims of domestic violence. http://www.niagara.com/~twebb/dvlinks.htm This link is incredible, with nearly 100 links to DV issues including a wonderful listing, 101 ways to combate DV. http://www.microserve.net/~ping/links.html Another list of links. This more professionaly oriented -, legal groups, advocacy organizations. Ethics NEW! http://www.PSR.org This is the Physicians for Social Responsiblity site. They won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 80's for their work agains nuclear war. Now they have expanded their mission, world health, gun control, environmental issues, and access to health care. It is a great group, and doing wonderful work. They have a virtual activism page that helps send letters to your politicians etc. They are getting 15,000 hits a week now. Here is a bioethics site like no other and he has digital postcards ! http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak5/igm/g47/Bauer.htm http://www.med.umn.edu/bioethics/apha/ This is the web site of the bioethics forum of the American Public Health Association. http://www.quackwatch.com/ This site is an exhaustive list of information on health fraud and abuse, and includes good and bad information on the ways "alternative medicine" can help and harm people. I think that everyone should check it out, and evaluate the treatments they are getting. Smoking Dr Petro wants you to check out Joe Cherney's page and activities. http://www.smokescreen.org/Org/Orgdet.cfm?ID=107 Cherney is a very involved anti-tobacco worker and his page is a model of how the web can be used for political action. UPDATE! As often happens in television news, Dateline bumped its segment on Leslie Nuchow and the SLAM! For more on this and for Anti-smoking Resources generally. http://www.smokescreen.org/ For information on tobacco cessation see this CDC page. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco It is a terrific resource for those thinking about quitting, those wanting to help others quit, and for those wanting information on tobacco and health. Tobacco smoking is one ot the commonest causes of complications in plastic surgery, and should be partof every physicians discussions with their patients. Free Speech The feminists for free speech are at www.well.com/user//freedom |
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