Warning: can lawyers seriously damage your health service?

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  • S Searle
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This paper looks at a personal experience of threatened legal action when a patient read that IUD usage was contraindicated in cases of cervical pre-cancer. Important medico-legal issues are raised, and the author asks how much time is spent watching our backs rather than caring for patients?

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The journal of family planning and reproductive health care

دوره 27 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001