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‘Problems with Managed Psychiatric Care without a Psychiatric Manager’

(Joseph Westermeyer [1991] Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 12, 1221–1224)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Neil S. Davies
Neil S. Davies*
Affiliation:
North Wales Hospital, Denbigh, Clwyd LL16 5SS
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Stones of mishap and disaster have a grisly if reluctantly acknowledged appeal. Who can resist flicking through the annual reports of the medical defence organisations or reading the epitomes of the Health Ombudsman? What newspaper editor with an eye for the circulation figures omits tales of human misfortune?

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , June 1992 , pp. 331
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