Perspective: Should we amputate medical history?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1162-1164

  Sokol, Daniel K ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CURRICULUM; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FACULTY, MEDICAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMANS;

EID: 60849125149     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31818c6610     Document Type: Short Survey

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