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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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Physicians as healthcare surrogate for terminally ill children
- Dr Pedro Weisleder, Division of Nalionwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio Slate University, 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, OH 43205, USA; pedro.weisleder{at}nalionwidechildrens.org
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Physicians as healthcare surrogate for terminally ill children
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- Received September 10, 2007
- Revised December 10, 2007
- Accepted January 9, 2008
- First published August 29, 2008.
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April 27, 2016
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