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PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP

Physicians’ Roles as Patient Advocates

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society opposes any measure, from government or the private sector, that compromises the physician’s role as patient advocate.

(Resolution 26-1998, adopted 11/15/1998)
(revised, Report L3-2004, Item 41, adopted 11/14/2004)
(reaffirmed, Report I-2009, Item 2-9, adopted 11/01/2009) (reaffirmed, NCMS Policy Review 2015 Report, Item 66, adopted 10/24/2015)