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JME40: Good medical ethics
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Defending the four principles approach as a good basis for good medical practice and therefore for good medical ethics
- Correspondence to Professor Raanan Gillon, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus, London W6 8RP, UK or 42 Brynmaer Road, London, SW11 4EW, UK; raanan.gillon{at}imperial.ac.uk
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Defending the four principles approach as a good basis for good medical practice and therefore for good medical ethics
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- Accepted October 30, 2014
- First published December 16, 2014.
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December 16, 2014
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