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Should physicians fake diagnoses to help their patients?
- G Helgesson, Unit for Bioethics, Department of LIME, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; gert.helgesson{at}ki.se
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Should physicians fake diagnoses to help their patients?
Publication history
- Received August 17, 2006
- Revised March 9, 2007
- Accepted March 20, 2007
- First published March 3, 2008.
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April 27, 2016
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