Is the physician's duty to the individual patient or to society?
- 1 April 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 23 (4) , 618-620
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003246-199504000-00004
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