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- Title
Words That Heal.
- Authors
Frenkel, Douglas N.; Liebman, Carol B.
- Abstract
Presents an editorial discussing a study on the views about the disclosure of medical errors by Mazor and colleagues. Timely study in view of emerging legal requirement of disclosure; Methodology of study with the use of questionnaire to patients; Favorable response for the physicians on full disclosure of the medical errors by them; Analysis and discussion on findings of study; Conclusion that there is a need for more such research with significant policy choices, law reforms and discussions between lawyers, physicians, and patients.
- Subjects
MEDICAL errors; DISCLOSURE; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; MEDICAL laws
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004, Vol 140, Issue 6, p482
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-140-6-200403160-00016