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Canadian list of essential medications

Potential and uncertainties

Navindra Persaud and Haroon Ahmad
Canadian Family Physician April 2017; 63 (4) 266-268;
Navindra Persaud
Staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ont, Associate Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St Michael’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the University of Toronto.
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Research assistant in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St Michael’s Hospital and a medical student in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.
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vol. 63 no. 4 266-268
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28404694

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0008-350X
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1715-5258
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  • Published online April 12, 2017.

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  1. Navindra Persaud, MD MSc CCFP⇑
  1. Staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ont, Associate Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St Michael’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the University of Toronto.
  1. Correspondence: Dr Navindra Persaud; e-mail nav.persaud{at}utoronto.ca
  1. Haroon Ahmad, MA
  1. Research assistant in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St Michael’s Hospital and a medical student in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.

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