The ob/gyn and legal liability: Condition critical, Part 1

Contemporary Ob/Gyn

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 73-92

  Lockwood, Charles J ^a   Auerbach, Robert D ^a   Scott, James R ^b   Strunk, Albert L ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS   (United States)

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