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Patient Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine—The Good Healthcare Citizen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2005

HOWARD BRODY
Affiliation:
Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Extract

Should patients request antibiotics from their physicians for common upper respiratory infections?I am grateful to Drs. Richard Bukata and Jerome Hoffman and the staff of Primary Care Medical Abstracts for retrieving and analyzing some of the references used in this paper.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: PATIENT ETHICS
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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