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‘Unbearable suffering’: a qualitative study on the perspectives of patients who request assistance in dying
- Correspondence to Marianne K Dees, General Practitioner, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Department of Primary and Community Care, Internal postal code 117, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands; m.dees{at}elg.umcn.nl
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‘Unbearable suffering’: a qualitative study on the perspectives of patients who request assistance in dying
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- Received May 17, 2011
- Accepted July 4, 2011
- First published September 24, 2011.
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February 26, 2018
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