{"id":3234,"date":"2020-02-10T08:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2020-01-17T14:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:49:56","slug":"how-should-clinicians-respond-to-international-public-health-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2020\/02\/10\/how-should-clinicians-respond-to-international-public-health-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"How Should Clinicians Respond to International Public Health Emergencies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/02\/Angela-Hewlett-Infectious-Disease-2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/02\/Angela-Hewlett-Infectious-Disease-2014.jpg 267w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/02\/Angela-Hewlett-Infectious-Disease-2014-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/02\/Angela-Hewlett-Infectious-Disease-2014-120x180.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/>Dr. Angela Hewlett, Medical Director of the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, recently co-authored an article that appeared in the AMA Journal of Ethics entitled; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/article\/how-should-clinicians-respond-international-public-health-emergencies\/2020-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Should Clinicians Respond to International Public Health Emergencies?&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Dr. Hewlett shared a brief summary of the paper below:<\/p>\n<p><em>The paper is a case-based analysis\u00a0of\u00a0issues surrounding clinicians who respond to international public health emergencies, including outbreaks of highly hazardous communicable diseases.\u00a0 Issues with clinicians providing care during outbreaks, including monitoring on return, ability to\u00a0resume patient care activities, and even\u00a0whether they should travel at all were encountered during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and continue to occur currently.\u00a0 The ethical discussion in this\u00a0paper\u00a0centers around the\u00a0balance of global health programs and\u00a0global solidarity, along with\u00a0the real or perceived\u00a0local risks by healthcare systems and the public\u00a0when clinicians return home from providing care during outbreaks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Citation: Abbey Lowe, MA, Angela Hewlett, MD, MS, and Toby Schonfeld, PhD. <em>AMA J Ethics.<\/em>\u00a02020;22(1):E16-21. doi: 10.100\/amajethics.2020.16.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Angela Hewlett, Medical Director of the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, recently co-authored an article that appeared in the AMA Journal of Ethics entitled; &#8220;How Should Clinicians Respond to International Public Health Emergencies?&#8221;\u00a0Dr. Hewlett shared a brief summary of the paper below: The paper is a case-based analysis\u00a0of\u00a0issues surrounding clinicians who respond to international public health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-and-staff","category-nbu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}