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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;
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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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Canadian Family Physician Jul 2015, 61 (7) 584-586;
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