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Chronicity and complexity

Is what’s good for the diseases always good for the patients?

Ross E.G. Upshur and Shawn Tracy
Canadian Family Physician December 2008, 54 (12) 1655-1658;
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vol. 54 no. 12 1655-1658
PubMed 
19074692

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The College of Family Physicians of Canada
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0008-350X
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1715-5258
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  • Published online December 12, 2008.

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  1. Ross E.G. Upshur, MD MSc CCFP FRCPC
  1. Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research, Director of the Primary Care Research Unit at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ont, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Director in the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto
  1. ↵Correspondence: Dr Upshur, Room E349B, 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5; telephone 416 480-6100, extension 1691; e-mail ross.upshur{at}sunnybrook.ca
  1. Shawn Tracy
  1. Research Associate in the Primary Care Research Unit at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and in the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto

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