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Comment
. 2008 Jan 26;336(7637):171.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.506389.3A.

Safety in health care: Legal impediments

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Safety in health care: Legal impediments

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Competing interests: The author is a doctor and experienced a life threatening serious adverse event after elective laparoscopic surgery in an NHS hospital. This is the subject of a complaint and (following failure of resolution) an ongoing legal action. He is also concerned that his experiences may be avoidably replicated in hospitals throughout the UK up to 50 times a year, sometimes fatally.

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