Palliative medicine: Is it really specialist territory?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 568-572

  Fordham, Simon ^b   Dowrick, Chris ^b   May, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0031774121     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014107689809101105     Document Type: Short Survey

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