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Introduction
Maintenance of professional standards
- History
- Relationship of law and ethics
Law and medical practice
- Government financing
- License requirements for practice
  - The exclusive systems
  - The tolerant systems
  - The inclusive and integrated systems
- Legal restrictions on practice
  - Determination of death
  - Termination of pregnancy
  - Sudden death
  - Public reporting
- Legal redress
Patients’ rights

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