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Law, ethics and medicine
Mixed motives, mixed outcomes when accused parents won’t agree to withdraw care
- Correspondence to Dr Jacob M Appel, 140 Claremont Avenue #3D, New York, NY 10027, USA; jacobmappel{at}gmail.com
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Mixed motives, mixed outcomes when accused parents won’t agree to withdraw care
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- Received March 30, 2009
- Revised May 15, 2009
- Accepted June 5, 2009
- First published September 30, 2009.
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April 27, 2016
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