Impaired practitioners notified to the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria from 1983 to 1997

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 171, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 414-417

  Wijeslnghe, Channa P ^a,b   Dunne, Fionnuala ^a  

^a S West Area Mental Health Service   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DRUG ABUSE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033581668     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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