Can primary care physicians be a resource to their patients in decisions regarding alternative and complementary therapies for cancer?

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 179-180

  Herbert, C P ^a  

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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0030788692     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-3991(97)00048-7     Document Type: Editorial

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