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Margaret McCartney: Christmas presents

BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6655 (Published 07 December 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h6655

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Re: Margaret McCartney: Christmas presents

Margaret's 'it seems different when you are the patient' observation, is very true: and also complicated.

The reality of 'we are humans, we interact with each other, and it seems different if ...' is the thing that 'gets lost' when people write rules/guidance to cover this type of human-to-human interaction: problematic !

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09 December 2015
Michael H Stone
Retired Non Clinical
None Private Individual
Coventry CV2 4HN