Patient abandonment.
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.
D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States