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Legal anxieties and medical mistakes

Barriers and pretexts

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Kapp, M.B. Legal anxieties and medical mistakes. J GEN INTERN MED 12, 787–788 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.07167.x

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