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Preventive detention must be resisted by the medical profession
- Correspondence to: Dr S M White, Department of Anaesthetics, Brighton, Royal Sussex County Hospital, East Sussex, BN2 5BE; igasbest{at}hotmail.com
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Preventive detention must be resisted by the medical profession
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- Accepted November 6, 2001
- Revised October 22, 2001
- First published April 1, 2002.
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April 27, 2016
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