Unhappy Doctors: What Are the Causes and What Can Be Done?

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2002 Apr 6

PMID 11934779

Citations 63

Authors

Nigel Edwards

Mary Jane Kornacki

Jack Silversin

Affiliations

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