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Medical tourism

Family medicine and international health-related travel

Leigh Turner
Canadian Family Physician October 2007; 53 (10) 1639-1641;
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vol. 53 no. 10 1639-1641
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17934018

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0008-350X
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1715-5258
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  • Published online October 12, 2007.

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  1. Leigh Turner, PhD
  1. Associate Professor and a William Dawson Scholar in the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University in Montreal, Que. In 2007 he is Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Comparative Program on Health and Society at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies
  1. Correspondence to: Leigh Turner, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, 3647 Peel St, Montreal, QC H3A 1X1; telephone 514 398-4239; fax 514 398-8349; e-mail leigh.turner{at}mcgill.ca
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