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Family physicians need to understand the principal legal issues confronting them. A basic understanding of these principles can be gleaned from a description of the categories and sources of the law.

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  1. William L. Turner
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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Turner, W.L., Bjerg, R.J., Renner, J.H. (1983). Legal Issues. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4002-8_131

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