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<td valign="top" width="50%"><font color="#A80000" size="1" face="Arial"><br>
</font><strong><font color="#C60000" size="3" face="Arial">As the Chairperson </font><font color="#C60000" size="2" face="Arial">of<br>
the</font><font color="#FF0000" size="2" face="Arial"> </font><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">Hospital Ethics Committee of Westchester Medical Center</font><font color="#000000" size="1" face="Arial"> </font><font color="#A80000" size="2" face="Arial">and
</font><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">Clinical Ethics Consultative Service</font><font color="#C60000" size="2" face="Arial">, <em>Dr Petro</em>, is deeply committed to sharing
medical information with the general public. <br>
<br>
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.</font><font color="#A80000" size="2" face="Arial"><br>
</font></strong><font size="1" face="Arial"><br>
</font><a name="general health"></a><strong><font color="#EC4D00" size="4">General Health
and Well Being</font><font color="#FF0000" size="3"><br>
</font></strong><font size="1" face="Arial"><br>
<a href="http://www.apha.org/index.html">http://www.apha.org/index.html</a><br>
</font><font size="2" face="Arial">As the largest public health organization in the world,
the <strong>American Public Health Association</strong><em> </em>does all kinds of work on
health and well-being, mainly from a disease prevention view.<br>
They are also active in social justice issues doing research into drug addiction, poverty
and infant</font><font size="3" face="Arial"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">mortality.</font><font size="4"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">As</font><font size="3" face="Arial"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">a</font><font size="3" face="Arial"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">standing member in their injury prevention section, Dr Petro highly
recommends this organization's valuable site.</font><font size="4"><br>
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<font color="#FF0000" size="2" face="Arial"><em><strong>NEWS ! </strong></em></font><font size="2" face="Arial">For a consumer-oriented medical news service, delivering 15 to 20
articles daily, look at <br>
Global Physician Network. Reuters Daily Healthcare News. <br>
</font><a href="http://www.gpnet.com/HealthcareNews.html"><font size="1" face="Arial">http://www.gpnet.com/HealthcareNews.html</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
</a>Clinically relevant stories for a consumer audience. </font><br>
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<a name="Domestic violence"></a><strong><font color="#EC4D00" size="4">Domestic Violence</font><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><br>
</font></strong><font size="2" face="Arial">Dr Petro is a standing member of the<br>
<strong>County Coalition on Westchester Domestic Violence<em> </strong>and<strong> </em>Chair
of the Medical and Social Services Subcommittee of the Westchester County Commission on
Domestic Violence. </strong>She recently participated in the <strong><br>
Commission on Domestic Violence Fatalities in New York City.</strong><br>
<br>
The Governor announced the findings of the Commission on<strong> Oct 7,1997</strong>.The
findings report will be used to create legislation designed to reduce domestic violence
fatalities in New York State.<br>
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</font><strong><em><font color="#FF0000" face="Arial" size="2">NEW! </font>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. <br>
</em><br>
<font color="#FF0000" face="Arial" size="2">Domestic Violence Sites and Resources</font></strong><br>
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<small><font face="Arial"><small><a href="http://www.fvpf.org">http://www.fvpf.org</a><br>
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.</small></font></small><br>
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<small><font face="Arial"><small><a href="http://www.microserve.net/~ping/links.htm">http://www.microserve.net/~ping/links.htm</a>l<br>
This web site list links, mostly legal, regarding domestic violence. It is a good resource
site. Some of the links are dead ends.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.microserve.net/~ping/art.htm">http://www.microserve.net/~ping/art.htm</a>l<br>
This site offers clip art that can be downloaded and used for brochures, mailing, etc<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.feminist.org/911/crisis.html">http://www.feminist.org/911/crisis.html</a><br>
These are domestic violence hot lines. <br>
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<a href="http://www.ofoinc.org/dvlinks.htm">http://www.ofoinc.org/dvlinks.htm</a><br>
These are New YOrk State hotline linkes.<br>
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<a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/public/releases/assault/orderfrm.htm">http://www.ama-assn.org/public/releases/assault/orderfrm.htm<br>
</a>this is the AMA diagnosis and treatment guidelines link. Tells medical professionals
what to look for in family violence.<br>
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</small></font></small><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="http://www.acep.org/PUBLIC/fc009803.htm">http://www.acep.org/PUBLIC/fc009803.htm</a><br>
This is a page from the College of Emergency Physicians and gives a doctors guide to
identifying and caring for victims of domestic violence.<br>
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<a href="http://www.niagara.com/~twebb/dvlinks.htm">http://www.niagara.com/~twebb/dvlinks.htm</a><br>
This link is incredible, with nearly 100 links to DV issues including a wonderful listing,
101 ways to combate DV.<br>
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<a href="http://www.microserve.net/~ping/links.html">http://www.microserve.net/~ping/links.html</a><br>
Another list of links. This more professionaly oriented -, legal groups, advocacy
organizations.</font><br>
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</font><font color="#EC4D00" size="4"><strong>Ethics</strong></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Arial"><font color="#FF0000"><strong><em>NEW!</em></strong></font><br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="http://www.PSR.org">http://www.PSR.org</a><br>
</font><font size="2" face="Arial">This is the<strong> Physicians for Social Responsiblity
</strong>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.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
Here is a bioethics site like no other and he has <em>digital postcards</em></font><font face="Arial" size="1"> ! <a href="http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak5/igm/g47/Bauer.htm">http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak5/igm/g47/Bauer.htm</a></font><br>
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<font face="Arial"><small><small><a href="http://www.med.umn.edu/bioethics/apha/">http://www.med.umn.edu/bioethics/apha/</a></small><br>
This is the web site of the bioethics forum of the American Public Health Association.</small></font><br>
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<font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="http://www.quackwatch.com/">http://www.quackwatch.com/</a><br>
</font><font size="2" face="Arial">This site is an exhaustive list of information on
health fraud and abuse, and includes good and bad information on the ways
&quot;alternative medicine&quot; can help and harm people. I think that everyone should
check it out, and evaluate the treatments they are getting. </font><br>
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</font><a name="Smoking"></a><strong><font color="#EC4D00" size="4">Smoking</font><font color="#EC4D00" size="3"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
</font></strong><font size="3" face="Arial">D</font><font size="2" face="Arial">r Petro
wants you to check out Joe Cherney's page and activities.<br>
</font><a href="http://www.smokescreen.org/Org/Orgdet.cfm?ID=107"><font size="1" face="Arial">http://www.smokescreen.org/Org/Orgdet.cfm?ID=107</font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
Cherney is a very involved anti-tobacco worker and his page is a model of how the web can
be used for political action.</font><font size="1" face="Arial"><br>
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</font><font color="#FF0000" size="2" face="Arial"><em><strong>UPDATE!</strong></em></font><font size="2" face="Arial"> As often happens in television news, Dateline bumped its segment on
Leslie Nuchow and the SLAM!</font><font size="1" face="Arial"> <br>
</font><font size="2" face="Arial">For more on this and</font><font size="1" face="Arial">
</font><font size="2" face="Arial">for Anti-smoking Resources generally</font><font size="1" face="Arial">. <a href="http://www.smokescreen.org">http://www.smokescreen.org/</a><br>
<br>
</font><font size="2" face="Arial">For information on tobacco cessation see this CDC page.
</font><font size="1" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco">http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco</a>
<br>
</font><font size="2" face="Arial">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.</font><font size="1" face="Arial"><br>
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</font><a name="Free Speech"></a><font color="#EC4D00" size="4"><strong>Free Speech<br>
</strong></font><font size="2" face="Arial">The feminists for free speech are at <br>
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<td width="150"><strong><font color="#EC4D00" size="1" face="Arial">DOMESTIC VIOLENCE<br>
</font><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#400040">Check out our<em> </font><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#FF0000">New</font></em><font color="#EC4D00" size="1" face="Arial">! </font><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#400040">resources and links </font></strong></td>
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<td width="150"><strong><font face="Arial" color="#EC4D00"><small><small>ETHICS </small></small><br>
</font><small><small><em><font face="Arial" color="#FF0000">NEW!</font><font face="Arial" color="#EC4D00"> </em>We are now linked with </font><font face="Arial" color="#400040">The
Physicians for Social Responsibility</font><font face="Arial" color="#EC4D00"> Web site.
Have a look ! </font></small></small></strong></td>
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