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Clinical ethics
Undertreating pain violates ethical principles
- Correspondence to Cheryl Macpherson, St George’s University School of Medicine, Bioethics, One E Main Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706, USA; ccox{at}sgu.edu
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Undertreating pain violates ethical principles
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- Received June 18, 2008
- Revised May 29, 2009
- Accepted June 11, 2009
- First published September 30, 2009.
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April 27, 2016
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