Physician obligation to provide care during disasters: should physicians have been required to go to Fukushima?

On 11 March 2011, Japan experienced a major disaster brought about by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and a massive tsunami that followed. This disaster caused extensive damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant with the release of a large amount of radiation, leading to a crisis level 7 on the...

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Authors: Akabayashi, Akira (Author) ; Takimoto, Yoshiyuki (Author) ; Hayashi, Yoshinori (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2012
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 38, Issue: 11, Pages: 697-698
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