Should Patients be Able to Refuse Care by House Officers ...

Mar 24, 2004 · The medical writer, Atul Gawande, himself a surgical resident in Boston, has written about the challenges of training on patients. In his 2002 book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science [Metropolitan Books, New York: 2002], he noted: “In medicine, there has long been a conflict between the imperative to give patients the ... ................
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