An office on main street: Health care dilemmas in small communities

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 28-37

  Roberts, Laura Weiss ^a   Battaglia, John ^a   Smithpeter, Margaret ^a   Epstein, Richard S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONFIDENTIALITY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033158871     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3528064     Document Type: Article

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