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Defensive medicine and the pandemic of fear-stricken doctors

25 August 2023

5:00 AM

25 August 2023

5:00 AM

Healthcare has transformed over the last four or five decades revealing a gradual shift in the practice of medicine from patient-centred care to one of systems, algorithms, and guidelines-based practices. There appear to be various contributing factors, the most obvious being the push for a corporate model of medicine by various global and national organisations with conflicting interests.

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