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When a therapist predicts that his patient is a danger to another person, does he have a duty to warn ...

The family wants answers, and so far, all they know is that he came in with one small cut and ...

How should an adverse event from a surgery be handled? ...

An African American male patient, age forty-two, was admitted to a skilled nursing unit after surgery for head and neck ...

This article presents the case of an HIV-positive patient who presented the treating physician, a psychiatrist, with an ethical dilemma ...

Is this 85-year-old patient "a complainer" or is she in pain? ...

In their book, Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You, Dr. Jerome Groopman and his wife, ...