Health care worker's legal duty to disclose HIV-positive status to patients before performing invasive procedures.
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This Casenote/Comment is brought to you for free and open access by TU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tulsa Law Review by an authorized editor of TU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation P. D. Brinkley, Health Care Worker's Legal Duty to Disclose HIV-Positive Status to Patients before Performing Invasive Procedures, 29 Tulsa L. J. 429 (2013).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Specialty law digest. Health care law
دوره 193 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1995