Now in its third year, three
occupational medicine residents have completed the block rotation.
Occupational medicine clinics look tired after a few years, and businesses that direct workers to them can relocate.
Occupational medicine specialists can help adjusters avoid claim "creep" in instances where it is questionable whether an aggravation or exacerbation is due to an on-the-job injury.
He is board certified in both
occupational medicine and medical toxicology by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
To order
Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines, call OEM Press in Beverly, Mass.
Early in the century
occupational medicine and private workmen's compensation ensured that the problem would remain in the work place.
Family physicians are increasingly occupying a new market niche: freestanding
occupational medicine clinics.
Workers' compensation costs can be reduced significantly when injured workers are treated by
occupational medicine specialists under managed care programs, according to a 1996 study in Washington state.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine planned to revise their Handbook of
Occupational Medicine, but the result was so expanded and changed in scope that they decided to change the title.
Mary's Occu-Med and
Occupational Medicine Clinic have doubled each year since the centers were opened in 1988, she says.
Rosenman, a specialist in
occupational medicine at the Michigan State University Clinical Center in East Lansing.
Based on interviews with corporate medical directors and others involved a
occupational medicine, Walsh insightfully portrays theconflicts that doctors employed by corporations encounter in integrating their professional commitment to support the health of workers and their bureaucratic obligation to support the goals and interests of their corporate employers.
