Rendering a dangerous healthcare ocean safer
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Rendering a dangerous healthcare ocean safer.
799 October 2015, Vol. 105, No. 10 Take a tidal wave of patients, a trickle of specialists and a small shoal of medical students eager to palpate, probe and prick (at the very least), and mix them together in the public sector sea for several consecutive years. No CPD points for guessing the range of adverse events that can follow, and inevitably will. The reality is that these ongoing ratios c...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samjnew.8758