Elephant medicine revisited

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 385-387

  Fred, Herbert L ^a,b  

^a MACP   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIZZINESS; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SERVICE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEURORADIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITIONAL VERTIGO; SEPSIS; SKULL INJURY; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS;

EID: 58849109381     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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