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Clinical ethics
“If you cannot tolerate that risk, you should never become a physician”: a qualitative study about existential experiences among physicians
- Margrethe Aase, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, PO Box 7804, N-5020 Bergen, Norway; margrethe.aase{at}isf.uib.no
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“If you cannot tolerate that risk, you should never become a physician”: a qualitative study about existential experiences among physicians
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- Received October 5, 2007
- Revised February 21, 2008
- Accepted March 3, 2008
- First published October 30, 2008.
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October 30, 2008
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2008 BMJ Publishing Group & Institute of Medical Ethics
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