Negligence litigation and medicine: force for good or root of all evil?
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Negligence, genuine error, and litigation
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0003-2409
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06688.x