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A coronavirus that normally occurs in some nonhuman animals infected humans and caused what came to be called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). At this time, when knowledge was limited and fear was strong, the dean of each medical school in Taiwan had to consider the role of students during...

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Published in:The Hastings Center report 2006-07, Vol.36 (4), p.14
Main Authors: Eastwood, Gregory L, Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Ding-Shinn, Chen, Dwyer, James
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
College administration
College students
Decision making
Epidemics
Health care
Health education
Infectious diseases
Medical schools
Obligations
Patients
Risk
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Skills
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Summary:A coronavirus that normally occurs in some nonhuman animals infected humans and caused what came to be called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). At this time, when knowledge was limited and fear was strong, the dean of each medical school in Taiwan had to consider the role of students during the epidemic. Also, physicians vary in their abilities to care for certain diseases-for example, the skills of emergency medicine physicians and specialists in infectious diseases would be more relevant in the care of patients with SARS than those of radiologists or parhologists.
ISSN:0093-0334
1552-146X