Commentary: Changing professional values

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1096-1098

  Mayo, Thomas W ^a  

^a SMU Dedman School of Law   (United States)

Author keywords

Duty to treat; Professional values

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MONKEYPOX; NOTE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

EID: 0347381058     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000101781.48372.d3     Document Type: Note

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