Healthy electronics, automated pharmacies and photography redux

Good morning! We're off the beaten path in today's Daily Briefing:

The Electronics Health Cost: "In the first five months of 2010 at Foxconn Technology Group's giant 300,000-worker electronics assembly plant in Longhua, China, 16 workers had attempted suicide by jumping off the top of tall dormitory buildings, resulting in 12 deaths and four crippling injuries, and at least 20 other workers were restrained before committing suicide," writes Garrett Brown in Occupational Health & Safety. He explains Apple's "code of conduct," Samsung's "cancer clusters," and models to protect workers.

Do We Really Need to Talk to Pharmacists? The BBC has a report on a new vending machine pharmacy, while Thomas Sullivan at Policy and Medicine responds to a report in The New York Times about pharmacists taking a greater role in health care.

Oil Spill Anxiety: Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator overseeing claims against BP related to the oil spill in the Gulf made this statement to a House of Representatives committee: "If you start compensating purely mental anguish without a physical injury -- anxiety, stress -- we'll be getting millions of claims from people watching television, You have to draw the line somewhere." MedPage has reaction from the American Psychiatric Assocation.

Speaking  of Photography: Curiosity fueled a Boston Globe investigation of patient health record disposal by hospitals. The Globe explains the fallout and genesis of the exposé: "A Globe photographer discovered the records July 26 when he was dumping his trash at the Georgetown Transfer Station. When he got out of his car, he said, he saw a huge pile of paper about 20 feet wide by 20 feet long. Upset that the paper wasn't being recycled, he looked more closely." Friday's Career GPS was a discussion of careers in photojournalism.

Landscapes in Eyes: A photo journey by Suren Manvelyan. (Hat tip to Scope blogger John Stafford.)