Ray Moynihan explores medicine’s evolving response to violence within the family
One of the centrepieces of this week’s Primary Health Care Research Conference in Canberra will be a presentation, billed as “best paper” at the conference, on how general practitioners respond to women who fear violence at the hands of their partners.
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