"First, do no harm": Balancing competing priorities in surgical practice

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1368-1374

  Leung, Annie ^a,b   Luu, Shelly ^a,b   Regehr, Glenn ^c   Murnaghan, M Lucas ^a,d   Gallinger, Steven ^b   Moulton, Carol Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

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EID: 84867029392     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182677587     Document Type: Article

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