PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J Pahl
TI  - The general practitioner and the problems of battered women.
AID  - 10.1136/jme.5.3.117
DP  - 1979 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 117--123
VI  - 5
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/5/3/117.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/5/3/117.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1979 Sep 01; 5
AB  - 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.