Is clinician refusal to treat an emerging problem in injury compensation systems?: Table 1
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Is clinician refusal to treat an emerging problem in injury compensation systems?
OBJECTIVE The reasons that doctors may refuse or be reluctant to treat have not been widely explored in the medical literature. To understand the ethical implications of reluctance to treat there is a need to recognise the constraints of doctors working in complex systems and to consider how these constraints may influence reluctance. The aim of this paper is to illustrate these constraints usi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Open
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2044-6055,2044-6055
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009423