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Thailand's medical leaders conclude med students need

Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, February 19, 2008

During a recent National Health Commission conference in Thailand, medical leaders, academics, and victims of medical errors discussed ways to avoid patient-physician conflict, including implementing curriculum for the "humanizing" of medical students, reports The Nation.

Leaders discussed the disconnect between medical professionals and patients, which they say is a cause of increasing legal cases filed against doctors in the last 10 years.

Amphon Jinda-whatthana, acting secretary general of the National Health Commission, said the problem "cannot be solved without emotion, feeling, or opinion" and that the conflict was a result of the nation's "complicated health system," reported the paper.

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