Medico-legal aspects of prescribing
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R. J. Daly
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Article
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1994
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The most frequent subject of malpractice litigation in the United States concerns suicide or failure to exercise proper restraint of a patient. In applying the law of negligence to suicide, it has to be shown that the doctor had owed the deceased patient a duty of care, i.e. that the doctor-patient