title: Warning: can lawyers seriously damage your health service?
abstract: This paper looks at a personal experience of threatened legal action when a patient read that IUD usage was contraindicated in cases of cervical pre-cancer. Important medico-legal issues are raised, and the author asks how much time is spent watching our backs rather than caring for patients?
authors.affiliation: Contraception and Sexual Health Services, Saltergate Health Centre, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 1SX, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Searle
mesh_terms: D000075202:Contraindications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007434:Intrauterine Devices; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008318:Malpractice; D011230:Precancerous Conditions; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014626:Vaginal Smears