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Trauma-informed care

Better care for everyone

Eva Purkey, Rupa Patel and Susan P. Phillips
Canadian Family Physician March 2018; 64 (3) 170-172;
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Assistant Professor and Director of Global Health in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.
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