Responding to our abused patients

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1539-1540

  Lent, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATTERED WOMAN; EDITORIAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030724508     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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