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Commentary
Are physicians obligated always to act in the patient's best interests?
- Correspondence to David Wendler, Department of Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD, USA 20892-1156; dwendler{at}nih.gov
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Are physicians obligated always to act in the patient's best interests?
Publication history
- Received August 31, 2009
- Revised November 5, 2009
- Accepted November 6, 2009
- First published February 4, 2010.
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February 04, 2010
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