In reply: I agree with Grattan-Smith that current medicolegal processes have profoundly negative effects on doctors. I do not agree that my coauthors and I have “negativity” towards doctors and an allegiance to current medicolegal practice.
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- New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
Correspondence: Louise.Nash@nswiop.nsw.edu.au
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