Realistic medicine to improve the quality of care in Scotland
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Scotland is in the throes of a public health revolution, as it rolls out its new "realistic medicine" approach. Catherine Calderwood tells Fiona Fleck why empowering both patients and clinicians is improving the quality of health care.
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