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From confrontation to cooperation in the doctor—Patient relationship

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Received from the Department of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Gillick, M.R. From confrontation to cooperation in the doctor—Patient relationship. J Gen Intern Med 7, 83–86 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02599108

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