Some Factors Influencing Prenatal Care
- 6 July 1961
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 265 (1) , 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196107062650101
Abstract
TO achieve the full values of medical care, the patient and the physician should be brought together promptly whenever there is need for such service. Need occurs whenever, in the light of current medical knowledge, medical care would prevent illness, disability or death, would shorten or ameliorate the effects of illness or injury or would restore function when, because of illness, injury or congenital defect, capacity is reduced below the maximum achievable by the patient. This concept provides for accommodation to advances in understanding in the basic and clinical sciences.There are relatively few areas of medical practice in which . . .Keywords
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