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    Nature, Niche, and Nurture: The Role of Social Experience in Transforming Genotype Into Phenotype
    (Springer Nature, 1998-12) Eisenberg, Leon
    Nature and nurture stand in reciprocity, not opposition. Offspring inherit, along with their parents' genes, their parents, their peers, and the places they inhabit. The ontogenetic niche is a crucial link between parents and offspring, an envelope of life chances. Development is at one and the same time a social and a psychological and a biological process. If we psychiatrists allow ourselves to become mere pill pushers-or psychotherapists who fit all patients into one Procrustean bed-each as the exclusive road to mental health, we will have abandoned the duty we owe our patients and our integrity as physicians.
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    Occupational Deaths among Healthcare Workers
    (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005) Sepkowitz, Kent A.; Eisenberg, Leon
    Recent experiences with severe acute respiratory syndrome and the US smallpox vaccination program have demonstrated the vulnerability of healthcare workers to occupationally acquired infectious diseases. However, despite acknowledgment of risk, the occupational death rate for healthcare workers is unknown. In contrast, the death rate for other professions with occupational risk, such as police officer or firefighter, has been well defined. With available information from federal sources and calculating the additional number of deaths from infection by using data on prevalence and natural history, we estimate the annual death rate for healthcare workers from occupational events, including infection, is 17–57 per 1 million workers. However, a much more accurate estimate of risk is needed. Such information could inform future interventions, as was seen with the introduction of safer needle products. This information would also heighten public awareness of this often minimized but essential aspect of patient care.