Apologies in medicine: legal protection is not enough

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Biomedical Ethics (McLennan), Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences (Rich), Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Ga.; Center for Bioethics (Truog), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. s.mclennan@unibas.ch.
² Institute for Biomedical Ethics (McLennan), Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences (Rich), Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Ga.; Center for Bioethics (Truog), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Review

Stuart McLennan et al. CMAJ. 2015.

. 2015 Mar 17;187(5):E156-9.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.131860. Epub 2014 Jul 28.

¹ Institute for Biomedical Ethics (McLennan), Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences (Rich), Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Ga.; Center for Bioethics (Truog), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. s.mclennan@unibas.ch.
² Institute for Biomedical Ethics (McLennan), Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences (Rich), Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Ga.; Center for Bioethics (Truog), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

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