What's so great about collaboration?
BMJPublished 15 April 2000Open access
Merrick Zwarenstein
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The modern concern with interactions between doctors and nurses began with an opinion piece in a psychiatric journal in 1967 and likened the relationship to a relationship between a father and daughter.
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Health ProfessionsBusiness, Management and Accounting
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