Act First and Look Up the Law Afterward?: Medical Malpractice and the Ethics of Defensive Medicine
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
- Vol. 19 (6) , 569-589
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009991707255
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