Narrative and illness: The death of a doctor's friend

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-11

  Hellman, Anne P ^a  

^a Beecroft Family Practice   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; TRASTUZUMAB;

BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BURN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FRIEND; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOTE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; PROGNOSIS; SKIN INJURY; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 11844271463     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06544.x     Document Type: Note

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