Defensive medicine: two historical cases

1 January 1996

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine

Vol. 8 (3) , 231-235
https://doi.org/10.3233/jrs-1996-8306

Abstract

Two characteristic historical examples of defensive medicine are referred to and analysed. The first of them relates to the behaviour of the eminent and experienced physician Critobulus, a member of the family of Asclepiades of Cos Island, native isl

Keywords

MEDICINE
TWO HISTORICAL
HISTORICAL CASES
CRITOBULUS
ISLAND
ASCLEPIADES
NATIVE
MEMBER

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