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Article: An appeal for clean air in the workplace.
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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(A Review of Medical-Legal Issues Surrounding the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome)
Medical-Legal Issues
During years of practice in the field of environmental medicine I have seen many patients that I believe were made ill by airborne chemical exposures in the workplace and who consequently developed the illness known as multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). I have often testified in their behalf. The following paper has been written with two purposes: First, as an appeal against what I consider to be the general inequities that prevail in the treatment of such employees, and second, to point out the importance of clean air in the workplace, not ...