Medical malpractice in the People's Republic of China: the 2002 regulation on the handling of medical accidents.

Dean M Harris; Chien-Chang Wu

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Medical malpractice in the People's Republic of China: the 2002 regulation on the handling of medical accidents.

October 26, 2005

Harris DM, Wu C-C. J Law Med Ethics. 2005;33(3):456-77.

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The authors explain the 2002 regulation of medical malpractice in China in the context of previous laws and identify lessons that the United States and China can learn from each other.

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