Should doctors disclose mistakes?
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Doctors should admit their mistakes.
"Doctors are frightened of malpractice" a comment recently made on his colleagues by a former director of the United States National Cancer Institute [1]. In Britain a remorseless increase in the number of actions against doctors by patients and their relatives and the cost of such actions has led to the government taking over responsibility for compensation for medical negligence [2]. In North...
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عنوان ژورنال: Western Journal of Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0093-0415
DOI: 10.1136/ewjm.172.1.10-a