Apologies in medicine: legal protection is not enough.

CMAJ

Institute for Biomedical Ethics (McLennan), Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences (Rich), Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Ga.; Center for Bioethics (Truog), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Published: March 2015

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