Tough questions, even harder answers

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1209-1210

  Ubel, Peter A ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33749418072     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00617.x     Document Type: Editorial

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