Reducing Legal Risk by Practicing Patient-Centered Medicine
- 10 June 2002
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 162 (11) , 1217-1219
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.162.11.1217
Abstract
FEAR OF legal liability weighs heavily on the minds of many physicians. This fear all too often distorts the practice of medicine and undermines a sense of profThis publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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