Placing principle before expediency: The Shipman Inquiry

Lancet

Volumn 365, Issue 9463, 2005, Pages 919-921

  Baker, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; EXPERIENCE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MORALITY; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL CONTROL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS;

FAMILY PRACTICE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL;

EID: 15844431382     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71059-X     Document Type: Note

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