Domestic violence: can doctors do more to help?

Moynihan, Ray N

doi:10.5694/mja12.10949

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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.

Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD.

Correspondence: raymoynihan@bond.edu.au

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

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