Study of Medical Students' Malpractice Fear and Defensive Medicine: A “Hidden Curriculum?”
Introduction: Defensive medicine is a medical practice in which health care providers' primary intent is to avoid criticism and lawsuits, rather than providing for patients' medical needs. The purpose of this study was to characterize medical students' exposure to defensive medicine d...
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Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine
2014
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4025526/ |