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Occupational lung disease
Executive Editor, InnovAiT
E-mail: chantal.simon{at}oxfordjournals.org
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Exposure to gases, vapours and dusts at work can lead to lung disease. If a patient develops an occupational lung disease, a doctor is obliged to notify the patient's employer in writing with the patient's consent. A list of notifiable respiratory diseases is included in Box 1. The doctor does not need to make a judgement about whether the disease is, in that particular case, caused by the occupation.