Waltham, Mass. - Feb. 22, 2013 - As spectators, perpetrators, or victims, violence and abuse are taking a huge toll on our nation's youth, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Bullying, dating violence, assaults, homicides, and sexual abuse are making frequent headlines across the country, sometimes reporting fatal consequences.
Physicians of the Massachusetts Medical Society provide some perspectives on the topic of youth violence in the March edition of Physician Focus, the Society's monthly patient education program broadcast by public access television stations. Youth Violence and Child Abuse exams the effects of violence on youth, the role physicians can play in helping families reduce youth violence, and what parents can do to protect their children from violence and abuse.
Guests are Robert Sege, M.D., Director of the Division of Family and Child Advocacy at Boston Medical Center, a Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and Elliot Pittel, M.D., Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at The Home for Little Wanderers in Boston, Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society's Committee on Violence Intervention and Prevention, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts Medical School. Hosting this edition is Bruce Karlin, M.D., a primary care physician in Worcester, Mass.
Physician Focus is a noncommercial production of the Massachusetts Medical Society and Hopkinton (Mass.) Community Access Television, HCAM-TV. Now in its ninth year, the monthly half-hour program brings viewers health and medical information on timely topics from physicians and other healthcare experts. Distributed as a public service, the program reaches some 275 communities in Massachusetts each month through the courtesy of public access television stations. For details on the program, visit the home page at www.physicianfocus.org.
The Massachusetts Medical Society, with more than 24,000 physicians and student members, is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts. The Society publishes The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the world's leading medical journals; the Journal Watch family of professional newsletters covering 11 specialties; and AIDS Clinical Care. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education for health care professionals throughout Massachusetts, conducting a variety of medical education programs for physicians and health care professionals. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country.
HCAM-TV was founded April 1, 2004 by the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Hopkinton as a nonprofit corporation to manage local access to cable broadcast facilities. For information on HCAM, visit www.hcam.tv
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