{"title":"Patient abandonment.","authors":"H L Hirsh","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The concluding installment of a year-long series which examined a broad range of situations in which a patient may claim to have been abandoned by his physician and how these situations have been viewed when the patient-physician relationship moves from the doctor's office to the courtroom. The focus of this installment is on prevention of malpractice actions for abandonment.</p>","PeriodicalId":76783,"journal":{"name":"Urban health","volume":"14 10-11","pages":"28-9 concl"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1985-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Urban health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The concluding installment of a year-long series which examined a broad range of situations in which a patient may claim to have been abandoned by his physician and how these situations have been viewed when the patient-physician relationship moves from the doctor's office to the courtroom. The focus of this installment is on prevention of malpractice actions for abandonment.