Should general practitioners be informed of patients' convictions for drug offences?
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Should general practitioners be informed of patients' convictions for drug offences?
Neville asks whether society might benefit if general practitioners were routinely informed by the courts when a patient of theirs had been convicted on drug charges. Four professionals respond to his suggestion. R. Gillon, an ethicist, rejects the proposal as potentially damaging to the physician patient relationship while offering little or no benefit to patients or society. J. Havard, Secret...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.292.6535.1579