TY - JOUR T1 - The general practitioner and the problems of battered women. JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 117 LP - 123 DO - 10.1136/jme.5.3.117 VL - 5 IS - 3 AU - J Pahl Y1 - 1979/09/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/5/3/117.abstract N2 - This paper discusses the responsibility of general practitioners who are consulted by women who have been physically injured by the men with whom they live. The paper draws on a study of 50 women who were interviewed at a refuge for battered women, and considers the help which they received, or did not receive, from their general practitioners. Such women are likely to face many difficulties: it is perhaps the essence of their problem that, because it is potentially the concern of so many people, it can so easily become the concern of nobody--except of the woman herself. ER -