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I have just heard a rather anguished voice saying ‘Patients come to their doctors to get well, not to sue’. Of course, the speaker was quite right. That is exactly what they do. And yet the curious thing is that a few do sue. I think we have to ask why.

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Lock, S., Dollery, C.T. (1981). The influence of the media. In: Cavalla, J.F. (eds) Risk-Benefit Analysis in Drug Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7132-6_14

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