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Medical ethics and law—surviving on the wards and passing exams
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Edited by Sokol DK, Bergson G. London: Published by Trauma Publishing, 2005, £14.95, pp 293. ISBN 0-95476-571-0
Yet another medical ethics book has been published, but the difference this time is that I actually like it Sokol and Bergson’s handbook Medical ethics and law—surviving on the wards and passing exams is for medical students and junior doctors preparing for life in medicine and for the inevitable exams. The format of the book closely follows that of the core curriculum for medical ethics and law set out by the BMA in 2004 in Medical ethics today. The book …
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