Physicians and Their Patients' Suicides

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 271, Issue 22, 1994, Pages 1786-1788

  Miles, Steven H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NOTE; PAIN; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0028283011     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1994.03510460078037     Document Type: Article

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