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Clinical ethics
Medical futility and physician discretion
- Correspondence to: M Wreen Box 1881, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201–1881, USA; Michael WreenMarquette.edu
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Medical futility and physician discretion
Publication history
- Accepted November 27, 2002
- Revised November 11, 2002
- First published June 1, 2004.
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June 01, 2004
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