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Taking the blame: appropriate responses to medical error
- Correspondence to Dr Daniel W Tigard, Human Technology Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, 52062, Germany; daniel.tigard{at}rwth-aachen.de
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Taking the blame: appropriate responses to medical error
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- Received December 1, 2017
- Revised August 21, 2018
- Accepted October 22, 2018
- First published November 9, 2018.
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January 25, 2019
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