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    Editorial: Insights in occupational health and safety: 2021

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    Occupational Medicine has always been concerned with preventing health effects caused by working conditions, and with promoting and maintaining the highest level of physical, mental, and social wellbeing of workers in all occupations

    EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CASE SURVEY OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE IN SOME MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SPECIALITIES

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    According to the common vifw held by the general public, doctors can never make professional mistakes, as if by virtue of their profession they were bound to be infallible. Moreover, when mistakes do occur in the medical field they are seen in a personal light, being attributed to an individual professional figure who is expected to answer for them in both the penal and the civil field. In this paper, the authors made a retrospective analysis of 37 of all the 725 legal suits filed in some hospitals of the Apulian region (South Italy) during the period between 1991 and 2000, being all those lodged against operators in the neurological, urological, otorhino-laryngoiatric and cardiosurgical fields, recorded in the Archives of the Health Services of Bari, Brindisi, Leece and Taranto or in those of our Forensic Department following consultations on medical and surgical responsibility

    ESPOSIZIONE PROFESSIONALE A FORMALDEIDE IN SALA SETTORIA DI MEDICINA LEGALE E IN LABORATORI DI ANATOMIA PATOLOGICA

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    The aim of the present study is to evaluate the personal exposure to formaldehyde in an autopsy room and in three pathological anatomy laboratories. Passive sampling for the whole workshift and HPLC analysis were performed. The final result showed a remarkable exposure of the workers enrolled. All the data obtained exceeded the NIOSH-TWA and several cases personal of exposure levels above the ACGIH-Ceiling value (0,37 mg/m3) were observed in the anatomy laboratory
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