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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
Malpractice trials are more theater than law
1Medical University of South Carolina and Hilton Head Hospital, USA.
Medical Economics
|October 28, 1999
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