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Caring for risky patients: duty or virtue?
- Tom Tomlinson, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, C208 E Fee, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; tomlins4{at}msu.edu
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Caring for risky patients: duty or virtue?
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- Received June 26, 2007
- Revised September 13, 2007
- Accepted September 19, 2007
- First published May 29, 2008.
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May 29, 2008
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2008 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the Institute of Medical Ethics
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