Getting Fired by the Family Doctor

February 8, 2010, 6:25 am by Wall Street Journal

Patients can and frequently do leave doctors they don't see eye to eye with, find inconvenient or can't afford. But doctors must follow strict ethical rules when they want to dismiss a patient.

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