Beyond scarcity: Poverty as a contraindication for organ transplantation

Virtual Mentor

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 441-445

  Simmerling, Mary ^a  

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EID: 85035359896     PISSN: 19377010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.6.pfor1-0706     Document Type: Review

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