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The trouble with medicine : preserving the trust between patients and doctors / Merrilyn Walton.

Title
The trouble with medicine : preserving the trust between patients and doctors / Merrilyn Walton.
Author
Walton, Merrilyn
Publication
St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1998.

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Description
viii, 216 p.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Patient Advocacy
  • Scientific Misconduct
  • Professional Competence
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Physician and patient > Australia
  • Physicians > Professional ethics > Australia
  • Medicine > Practice > Australia
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-208) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. 1. Medicine Today. 1. Why is medicine in trouble? 2. Conflicts of interest -- pt. 2. Troublespots. 3. The business of medicine. 4. Sexual misconduct. 5. Scientific misconduct. 6. Doctors and their drugs. 7. Transmission of infection. 8. The incompetent doctor -- pt. 3. Where to Go from Here. 9. How patients are protected now. 10. What can we do?
ISBN
1864484713
LCCN
^^^99204559^
OCLC
  • 39444642
  • SCSB-11978310
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library