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Knowledge and attitudes of physicians toward forensic psychiatry in Saudi Arabia

Saleh A. Alghamdi, Lujain S. Alfayez, Taif F. Alnojaidi and Mohammed A. Aljaffer
Saudi Medical Journal January 2022, 43 (1) 98-104; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.1.20210669
Saleh A. Alghamdi
From the Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Alghamdi); from the College of Medicine (Alfayez, Alnojaidi), Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, and from the Department of Psychiatry (Aljaffer), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Lujain S. Alfayez
From the Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Alghamdi); from the College of Medicine (Alfayez, Alnojaidi), Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, and from the Department of Psychiatry (Aljaffer), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Taif F. Alnojaidi
From the Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Alghamdi); from the College of Medicine (Alfayez, Alnojaidi), Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, and from the Department of Psychiatry (Aljaffer), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Mohammed A. Aljaffer
From the Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Alghamdi); from the College of Medicine (Alfayez, Alnojaidi), Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, and from the Department of Psychiatry (Aljaffer), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Saleh A. Alghamdi, Lujain S. Alfayez, Taif F. Alnojaidi, Mohammed A. Aljaffer
Saudi Medical Journal Jan 2022, 43 (1) 98-104; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2022.43.1.20210669

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