The older patient-physician interaction

Handbook of Communication and Aging Research

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 451-477

  Thompson, Teresa L ^a   Robinson, James D ^a   Beisecker, Analee E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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