Abstract:he Health System agonizes in Brazil, but there is still hope. In 1999, more than five years ago, we wrote an article entitled "The snake's egg", with the purpose of alerting the Brazilian society in general to the risks of copying the North-American style, in respect to the establishment of the unjust 'industry of damage'. On that occasion, we drew attention to the avalanche of lawsuits that doctors as well as public and private hospitals would suffer, which would ruin the doctor-patient relationship and highl… Show more
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