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The best interests of persistently vegetative patients: to die rather that to live?
- Correspondence to Dr Tak Kwong Chan, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, L1 59 Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; theo{at}hku.hk
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The best interests of persistently vegetative patients: to die rather that to live?
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- Received September 21, 2012
- Revised November 21, 2012
- Accepted January 14, 2013
- First published February 6, 2013.
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April 27, 2016
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