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Navigating physicians’ ethical and legal duties to patients seeking unproven interventions abroad

Jeremy Snyder, Krystyna Adams, Y.Y. Chen, Daniel Birch, Timothy Caulfield, I. Glenn Cohen, Valorie A. Crooks, Judy Illes and Amy Zarzeczny
Canadian Family Physician July 2015; 61 (7) 584-586;

Article Information

vol. 61 no. 7 584-586
PubMed 
26175363
Published By 
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Print ISSN 
0008-350X
Online ISSN 
1715-5258
History 
  • Published online July 14, 2015.
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Copyright© the College of Family Physicians of Canada

Author Information

  1. Jeremy Snyder, PhD⇑
  1. Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC.
  1. Correspondence: Dr Jeremy Snyder; e-mail jcs12{at}sfu.ca
  1. Krystyna Adams, MPH
  1. Doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.
  1. Y.Y. Chen, MSW
  1. Doctoral candidate in juridical science in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
  1. Daniel Birch, MD
  1. Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Universityof Alberta in Edmonton.
  1. Timothy Caulfield, LLM FRSC FCAHS
  1. Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta.
  1. I. Glenn Cohen, JD
  1. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass.
  1. Valorie A. Crooks, PhD
  1. Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University.
  1. Judy Illes, PhD
  1. Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
  1. Amy Zarzeczny, LLM
  1. Assistant Professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan.
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Navigating physicians’ ethical and legal duties to patients seeking unproven interventions abroad
Jeremy Snyder, Krystyna Adams, Y.Y. Chen, Daniel Birch, Timothy Caulfield, I. Glenn Cohen, Valorie A. Crooks, Judy Illes, Amy Zarzeczny
Canadian Family Physician Jul 2015, 61 (7) 584-586;
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