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Persuading the sick or impaired doctor to seek treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sydney Brandon
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A recent working party report published by the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust (1996) made a series of recommendations for the improvement and better coordination of existing services. This comes at a time when new and expensive counselling services are springing up everywhere, the most ambitious being the British Medical Association's 24-hour counselling service for doctors and their relatives.

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Research Article
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 3 , Issue 5 , September 1997 , pp. 305 - 311
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1997 

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