The Role Of Physician In Healthcare

The role of physician in healthcare are many; this include diagnosing and working collaboratively with other members of the healthcare team to provide ultimate care for their patients. Physician also perform educational role to their patients and significant other, and other members of the healthcare team. Physician conduct medical researches, and sometimes participate in transferring the research findings from the bench to the bedside. Physician also perform advocacy for their patients.
The threat of bioterrorism in today’s world is real and enormous. The events of 9/11 showed that the United States is not protected from the turbulent world of terrorism by the surrounding oceans. It’s estimated that over 60 nations and terrorist organizations
Evidence-Based Risk Assessment.
An enduring biodefense requires a robust public health system that is responsive to the health needs of the populace. Evidence-based risk assessment of public health infrastructure is an effort to ascertain the capacity and strength of existing public health infrastructure to cope with a potential bioterrorist attack in the United States.
Public health work force in the United States is about 500,000 in strength and most of them don’t have formal training in public health emergency response. These workforce need to be well trained in response to bioterrorism emergency. Hospitals are far from being prepared to handle potential mass casualties that can result from bioterrorism (Knobler et al,
An important principle of integrated health system is its comprehensiveness in planning for, providing and coordinating all core health response required for biodefense along the continuum of response to the health emergencies resulting from bioterrorism. The extent of integration is determined to a larger extent by the assimilation of the various groups, in to the larger system of biodefense (Suter et al, 2009).
Leadership with an organizational culture and vision is required to operate and implement an integrated health response system of biodefense (Suter et al, 2009). Physicians with their background in health care delivery: including knowledge of drugs and immunization, fits perfectly well in to this role.
Multiprovider health care system within the biodefense are usually the first to respond to either a confirmed or suspected case of bioterrorism, and it’s their responsibility to report this. It’s this initial report that will alert and activate the emergency response system within the biodefense (Blair et al,