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Narratives in family medicine: a global perspective

The Besrour Papers: a series on the state of family medicine in the world

Christine Gibson, Robert Woollard, Videsh Kapoor and David Ponka
Canadian Family Physician February 2017; 63 (2) 121-127;
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Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary in Alberta and Executive Director of the Global Familymed Foundation.
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