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social science subjects > health and social care > health services > health service provision > private medicine
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private medicine  

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  • The organization of the delivery of medical services based on an individual contract between the patient and the doctor. Organized medicine has always resisted attempts to bring it under state control as socialized medicine. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Private Medicine]

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