When Patients Are Harmed, But Are Not Wronged: Ethics, Law, and History
When Patients Are Harmed, But Are Not Wronged: Ethics, Law, and History
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England: Elsevier Inc
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Abstract Iatrogenic injury—injury caused unintentionally by medical treatment—breaks the oldest and most famous rule of medical ethics: primum non nocere , or above all, do no harm. Medical malpractice law, however, focuses on whether an injury was caused by negligence, not on whether an injury was iatrogenic. Iatrogenic injury inflicted without ne...
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When Patients Are Harmed, But Are Not Wronged: Ethics, Law, and History
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1614686810
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0025-6196
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1942-5546
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10.1016/j.mayocp.2014.05.004
