Emergency response: Physician training and obligations

American Family Physician

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 401-403

  Swain, Geoffrey R ^a   Burns, Kelly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EDUCATION; EXPLOSION; FIRE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EMERGENCIES; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846924591     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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