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Clinical ethics
The ethics of surgery in the elderly demented patient with bowel obstruction
- Correspondence to: Mr P Gallagher, Department of Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN, UK; paulvgallagher{at}email.msn.com
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The ethics of surgery in the elderly demented patient with bowel obstruction
Publication history
- Accepted July 19, 2001
- Revised July 18, 2001
- First published April 1, 2002.
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April 01, 2002
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