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Editorial
Errors in Family Practice
South African Family Practice | Vol 45, No 2 | a1992 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/safp.v45i2.1992
| © 2003 Pierre de Villiers
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Submitted: 22 September 2011 | Published: 31 May 2003
Submitted: 22 September 2011 | Published: 31 May 2003
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Pierre de Villiers, SA Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, South AfricaFull Text:
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We read about doctors' errors in the newspapers almost on a daily basis. Rightly so one may add, because doctors are dealing with human lives and their errors may be costly in terms of suffering and even loss of life. Society places a heavy demand on doctors. If engineers can place a man on the moon, and doctors do organ transplants as a matter of routine and provide new miracle cures for formerly incurable diseases, then errors are seemingly becoming inexcusable.
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