Malpractice and Boundary Violations

Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1165-1175

  Schouten, Ronald ^a,b   Brendel, Rebecca W ^a,b   Edersheim, Judith G ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-04743-2.50088-3     Document Type: Chapter

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